1. Shovel shaped incisors

2. General information
• It is morphologically an anomaly of the crowns
of incisor teeth.
• It is more common in the maxillary teeth
• the shovel shape is manifested by the
prominence of the mesial and distal marginal
ridges which enclose a Central fossa on the
lingual surface of incisor teeth
• it is frequently associated with a short root