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Introduction: Developmental dental anomalies are an important category of dental morphologic variations. The abnormal variations that occur in relation to the dentition and jaws could be attributed to the genetic, environmental, social, ethnic and pathological factors. Dental anomalies are a frequent finding on routine oral examination.

Objective: The study was conducted to assess the prevalence of the developmental dental anomalies in the Indian population and to assess the gender predilection of dental anomalies.

Materials and Method: This cross sectional study was based on clinical examination and evaluation of panoramic radiographs of 1500 Indian subjects, who visited the Department of Oral Medicine and Radiology, PDM dental College and Research Institute, Bahadurgarh, Haryana, India between May 2015 and March 2016.

Result: Among 1500 patients, 528 (35.2%) patients had at least one dental anomaly. Highest prevalence was of Impacted teeth 282 (18.8%), 12.8% had congenitally missing teeth, 1% had supernumerary teeth, Microdontia prevalence was 1.0%. Other anomalies were found at lower prevalence ranging from transposition 1 (0.07%) to ectopic eruption 9 (0.6%). Females have greater prevalence of impacted teeth and congenitally missing teeth were found to be greater in male population.

Conclusion: While the overall prevalence of these anomalies may be low, early diagnosis is imperative for the patient management and treatment planning. The present study showed that the prevalence of various dental anomalies shows variations from other similar studies. The dissimilarities may be attributed to the sample selection, method of the study and area of patient selection, which suggest racial and genetic differences.

Anomalies; congenital; developmental; panoramic radiographs.