M any dental diseases can be easily treated or even prevented if the diagnosis is made early. A simple example is the dentigerous cyst, although many veterinarians are not familiar with this condition. This article presents an overview of dentigerous cysts in dogs and cats, in the hope that more of these cysts will be prevented or diagnosed early. Dentigerous cysts (follicular cysts) are, in my...

Retention, that is, a permanent tooth which is unerupted more than a year after the normal age of eruption, is a relatively rare event, except in the case of the third molars and the upper canines. Transmigration is defined as the phenomenon of more than half an unerupted impacted tooth crossing the midline. We report the clinical case of a twenty-year-old patient presenting transmigration of t...

A supernumerary tooth is one that is supplementary to the normal dentition. It can be found anywhere at the dental arch. A mesiodens is a supernumerary tooth located between the two maxillary central incisors usually palatally or within the alveolar process. Less frequently, the mesiodens is in relation with the nasal floor and the nasopalatine canal walls. This paper presents a very rare case ...

INTRODUCTION Inverted tooth impaction is a rare occurrence. Third molar impaction is the most extensively studied, and only eight cases of inverted third molars have been reported in a literature search of 40 years from 1973 to 2013. In a study, 43.4% of the premaxillary supernumeraries were inverted and 21.1% were transversely oriented, while occasional inverted central incisors have been ment...

BACKGROUND Dental fear is usually associated with hemodynamic changes. Fear of pain during the surgical removal of a lower impacted third molar might cause patients anxiety, thereby leading to avoidance of any future dental therapy. This study aimed to determine the effect of experiencing a surgical impacted-tooth removal on the pain perception-related anxiety and hemodynamic status. METHODS ...

BACKGROUND Post-operative complications of various degrees of severity are commonly observed in third molar impaction surgery. For this reason, a surgical procedure that decreases the trauma of bone and soft tissues should be a priority for surgeons. In the present study, we compare the efficacy and the post-operative complications of patients to whom two different surgical techniques were appl...

Objectives: To assess the prevalence of different pattern of impacted teeth. Materials & Method: A retrospective study of the digital orthopantomograms of 500 patients from Dept of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, Rajarajeswari Dental College & Hospital, Bangalore was carried out. The investigation was done to relate the impaction to the angulation of tooth, age, and sex. Result: Panoramic radiogr...

Impaction is defined as the failure of a tooth to erupt in its appropriate site in the dental arch within its normal period of growth (Preda et al., 1997). The frequency of individual based permanent tooth eruption disturbances is 20% the overwhelming majority of impacted teeth involve third molars, followed by maxillary canines and the mandibular second premolars (Grover and Lorton, 1985). Max...

This prospective study evaluated patients' perceptions of recovery after surgical exposure of impacted teeth treated with a closed-eruption surgical-orthodontic technique. Twenty-nine patients (16 female, 13 male; mean age, 16 +/- 2.8 years) were given a health-related quality of life questionnaire to be completed each postoperative day (POD) for 7 days. The questionnaire was designed to assess...

Corresponding Author: Dr. Renu Chaturvedi A-13,Vaishali Colony, Garh Road, Meerut-250003, Uttar-Pradesh. Contact: +919837100900 Email: [email protected] Mesiodens is a type of supernumerary tooth located between maxillary central incisors. It is usually a small tooth with a coneor peg shaped crown and a short root. It may be single or paired, erupted or impacted and at times even inverted....