Oral Health and Dental Management

Case report of impacted bilateral mandibular fourth molar

33^rd International Conference on Dental and Oral Health

August 13-14, 2018 Dubai, UAE

Faisal Al Rumaihi

Prince Sultan Military Medical City, Saudi Arabia

Posters & Accepted Abstracts: Oral Health Dent Manag

Abstract:

Supernumerary teeth are a rare dental anomaly in maxilla and mandible can be classified by shape and by position in the jaw. It might cause complication such caries, periodental disease, and delay or impaction of permanent teeth. Supernumerary tooth or hyperdontia is not as common as hypodontia. The prevalence in primary dentition is 0.2-0.8% and in the permanent dentition 0.5- 5.3% with geographic variation. The fourth molar is a kind of supernumerary tooth they have been classified as a type of paramolar or distomolars tooth. This case report of a 20 years old female (medically fit) come to the dental clinic complaining from pain in the lower right quadrant upon clinical examination and routine radiographic examination revealed impacted third molar and un erupted bilateral mandibular fourth molar Orthopantogram (OPG) x-ray should this rare case of unerupted bilateral distomolar in mandible without any associated syndrome. This case report discusses the diagnosis and treatment of this rare case of impacted bilateral mandibular distomolar and in what condition shall we keep the fourth molar or extracted.

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