Abstract
A 2-year-old boy and a 3-year-old girl were examined with the chief complaint of delayed eruption of the maxillary right deciduous canine.
In both cases, oral examination revealed a firm swelling on the labial gingiva at the region of the right deciduous canines of the maxilla. Radiographic examination revealed that these odontoma like substances disturbed the eruption of the deciduous maxillary canines.
We diagnosed these cases as "Compound odontomas inducing impaction of a deciduous canine". We removed surgically the odontoma-like substances and observed the progress of these cases. The deciudous canines erupted naturally and moved to their position.
