The orthodontic records of 685 patients referred for surgical exposure of an unerupted impacted maxillary canine tooth were examined. The condition was more common among females than males, slightly less than 2:1. The impacted teeth had a palatal-labial ratio of 3:1. All of the teeth were exposed using the open surgical technique and in 98% of cases the tooth erupted and was orthodontically ali...

Introduction. A dentigerous cyst is a pathological lesion associated with the crown of unerupted or impacted tooth. Decompression proposed as initial treatment for large cysts, especially in younger patients. The aim this study was to present clinical, radiological, histopathological, and therapeutical aspects maxilla. Case report. 12-year-old boy maxilla referred our clinic. maxillary left can...

analysis and prediction of the sizes of unerupted teeth. The three main methods utilized includes direct measurement of teeth from the study models and use of prediction tables and equations [3-5], direct measurement of teeth sizes from radiographs [6-8], and a combination of measurement of tooth sizes on radiographs and use of prediction tables [2,9,10]. The combined methods of tooth sizes mea...

Disturbances of tooth development may result in anomalies which appear in the form of swelling of the overlying mucosa of the erupting deciduous or permanent teeth, mostly in children. Eruption cyst (EC), a benign cyst is one such lesion associated with erupting teeth. ECs usually present as solitary swellings on the alveolar ridge mucosa, whereas multiple ECs presenting simultaneously or in sh...

Dentigerous Cyst/developmental cyst of benign odontogenic origin are ones that surround the crown of impacted, embedded, unerupted or developing teeth. Dentigerous cyst is second most common cyst of the oral cavity after radicular cyst. They are usually solitary in occurrence and mostly associated with the mandibular third molars. Dentigerous cysts involving impacted second premolars are rarely...