It is referred to as supernumerary to a dental pathological condition characterized by an excessive number of teeth arranged in the oral cavity, these teeth produce an obstacle for the emergence of permanent teeth thus delaying normal dental development, this condition is observed mostly in pediatric patients At the age of six, the age group in which the transition from temporary to permanent teeth begins, all supernumeraries are extracted by means of outpatient surgery.
The other qualifier to describe supernumeraries is hyperodontia, these additional teeth can be observed unilaterally or bilaterally, they can have a normal or distorted morphology, they can even sprout towards the surface or remain encyst in the gum avoiding the sprouting of the teeth permanent.
According to the morphology that these additional dental pieces have, they can be classified as: Euromorphic, which have an exact anatomy of a normal tooth in all its conjugate parts; on the other hand, there are heteromorphic ones, they have a totally abnormal shape, the exposed crown is conical in shape, or in some cases they are divided into two parts (bifurcated), the roots can be fused with those of the adjacent teethTo them, among the examples of them, tuberculate teeth can be mentioned, they have a reduced size with respect to normal teeth, they are assigned that name because they have multiple branches or tubercles arranged in the crown and in most of the Sometimes they are arranged with a single root of high thickness and with a curvature, these present many difficulties at the time of extraction, thus delaying the emergence of the permanent teeth.
