It is not rare to see teeth, generally canine, make
their eruption from the vault of the palate; and these teeth are
not generally supernumerary, but examples of vice and deviation
of position. Fanton-Touvet, however, gives an example of a
supernumerary tooth implanted in the palatine arch. Branch a
describes a little negro boy who had two large teeth in the nose;
his dentition was otherwise normal, but a portion of the nose was
destroyed by ulceration. Roy describes a Hindoo lad of fourteen
who had a tooth in the nose, supposed to have been a tumor. It
was of the canine type, and was covered with enamel to the
junction with the root, which was deeply imbedded in the side and
upper part of the antrum. The boy had a perfect set of permanent
teeth and no deformity, swelling, or cystic formation of the jaw.
This was clearly a case of extrafollicular development and
eruption of the tooth in an anomalous position, the peculiarity
being that while in other similar cases the crown of the tooth
shows itself at the floor of the nasal cavity from below upward,
in this instance the dental follicle was transposed, the eruption
being from above downward. Hall cites an instance in which the
right upper canine of a girl erupted in the nose.
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