When creating a treatment plan for impacted maxillary canines, conventional radiographs will likely work fine for most cases. But if a case is particularly difficult to diagnose in the initial ...

The adenomatoid odontogenic tumour (AOT) is a rare tumour of the jaws with completely benign behaviour. Treatment of this lesion is via surgical curettage and recurrence seldom if ever occurs. It is ...

Question: My dentist said I can’t have an implant to replace my missing tooth because there is an old impacted canine tooth up in the bone. I really don’t want a bridge (because that would mean ...

Cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) imaging helped clinicians use a novel surgical technique to remove a rare nasally impacted extra tooth in a 13-year-old boy. The case report was published on April ...

A tooth is considered to be impacted if it fails to emerge completely though the gums. An impacted tooth is a tooth that fails to fully pass through the gums. It is usually positioned against another ...