Supernumerary teeth in patients with cleft lip and palate: the tooth germs do not separate.
Alberto ConsolaroMaria Carolina Malta MedeirosDario Augusto Oliveira MirandaIngrid Araújo de OliveiraPublished in: Dental press journal of orthodontics (2021)
The current concepts of embryology no longer support the fusion of embryonic processes for the formation of the face, but rather the leveling of the grooves between them. All human teeth have a dual embryonic origin, as they are composed of ectoderm and mesenchyme/ectomesenchyme, but this does not make it easy for them to be duplicated to form supernumerary teeth.