Clinicians examining a routine dental x-ray discovered a 20-year-old man had rare, identical bilateral horizontally impacted lower molars. Details of the case were published in the Cureus Journal of ...

Tooth impaction in children can lead to problems with the roots of other teeth. A child can end up with crowding or have teeth in positions that make it hard for them to chew. Impacted teeth can ...

"Removal of impacted teeth where there is no disease is controversial." Wisdom teeth, or a person's third and final set of back molars, are the last teeth to grow in one's mouth.

Patients are being prescribed antibiotics to manage pain or infection, rather than receiving the necessary surgical removal.

Some wisdom teeth fully erupt so they totally stick out of the gums. But more than 90% of people who get third molars have at least one impacted wisdom tooth. It’s stuck under the gums or under ...

The final sample therefore consisted of 1198 OPGs with 1810 impacted lower third molars (1224 bilateral impactions, 586 unilateral impactions).

The researchers reviewed almost 1,200 panoramic radiographs (Kodak 8000C, Carestream Dental) taken at the University of Jordan Hospital Department of Dentistry between 2010 and 2014. These included ...