BACKGROUND The purpose of this study is to determine the type and frequency of pathological conditions around third molar teeth among randomly selected patient's records in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, College of Dentistry, King Saud University, Riyadh. MATERIALS AND METHODS Totally, 281 patient panoramic radiographs were selected with detectable pathology among 570 files of patients seen ...

Methods of exposing impacted teeth in order to bring them into the line of the arch include gingivectomy, the apically repositioned flap and closed eruption techniques. These procedures aim to facilitate the eruption of the impacted tooth with a minimum of disruption or damage to the tooth itself or adjacent structures. The aim of this paper is to discuss the various surgical methods of exposin...

Aim : The aim of this study is to evaluate the angulation of impacted mandibular third molars and also to evaluate the most common sex affected . Objective: To determine which angulation is more common in impaction To determine the prevalence of mandibular third molar impaction based on gender Materials and Methodology: The study was conducted on 110 subjects which consists of 58 males and 52 f...

BACKGROUND AND AIM: Supernumerary tooth (ST) is considered as a developmental tooth abnormality in number that most often occurs in the anterior region of the maxilla. They may erupt or remain impacted in the alveolar bone. The impacted teeth can cause eruptional disturbances for the adjacent developing teeth. CASE REPORT: A case of bilateral supplemental maxillary lateral incisors in a nonsynd...

An ankylosed tooth can be suitable for obtaining orthodontic anchorage. However, if such a tooth lacks adequate clinical crown height, the anchorage will not be effective. In those situations surgical luxation or restorative crown augmentation is suggested. This case report is about the restorative treatment of an ankylosed, infraoccluded tooth to enhance the anchorage for forced orthodontic er...

Benign cementoblastoma is a rare lesion representing less than 1% of all odontogenic tumours. It usually affects young people and is located in the posterior jaw. In almost all cases the tumour tends to be associated with an erupted permanent tooth, most often the first molar: only rarely has an association with an impacted or deciduous tooth been reported. The authors present a case of a cemen...

The dentigerous cyst (DC) is the most common type of developmental odontogenic cyst. It is usually asymptomatic and associated with the crown of an unerupted or impacted tooth. However, after a long duration, it is likely to cause significant bone resorption, cortical expansion, and tooth displacement. This report presents a large infected DC in the mandible of a 12-year-old female patient. The...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this retrospective study was to investigate factors associated with increased difficulty in the surgical extraction of impacted lower third molars and to improve identification of difficult cases. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 680 patients who required 762 surgical extractions of impacted lower third molars from 2009 to 2014 were enrolled in the study. Demographic fac...

Tooth impaction is a pathological situation where a tooth fails to attain its normal functional position. Impacted third molars are commonly encountered in routine dental practice. The impaction rate is higher for third molars when compared with other teeth. The mandibular third molar impaction is said to be due to the inadequate space between the distal of the second mandibular molar and the a...

In the past the benign cementoblastoma was recognized in the World Health Organization's classification of odontogenic tumours as one of the cementoma neoplasias. Recently the benign cementoblastoma is included into Mesenchyme and/or odontogenic ectomesenchyme, with or without odontogenic epithelium odontogenic tumours. Benign cementoblastoma has characteristic radiologic and microscopic featur...