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Prevalence of single and multiple anterior teeth impactions in a population reporting to a Private Dental College
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ADITYA JAIN, SARAVANA DINESH S.P, PRADEEP KUMAR.R
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Impacted teeth are defined as teeth that remain completely or incompletely embedded within the jawbone or mucosa for 2 years or more following physiological eruption time.Although there are wide variations in impacted teeth among individuals. The aim of this research is to study the prevalence of a single or multiple anterior teeth impactions in a population reporting to Saveetha Dental College, Chennai in a period of 10 months from June 2019 March 2020. The data of 86000 patients was reviewed and patients with single or multiple anterior teeth impactions were selected for the study. It included parameters - age, gender, and impacted teeth number .Chi-square test was used to detect the significance between age, gender and impacted tooth number. P value less than 0.05 was considered statistically significant. In this study we observed that the prevalence of maxillary canine impaction was the highest among different age groups as well as gender. Within the limits of this study, maxillary canine has the highest prevalence among anterior teeth impactions followed by mandibular canine. Anterior teeth impactions were found to be more common in females when compared to males.
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prevalence, eruption, impactions, canine, orthopantomogram
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https://doi.org/10.31838/ijpr/2020.SP2.247
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