Autogenous tooth transplantation (ATT) can be considered when there is a hopeless molar tooth and suitable donor present. This report presents an unconventional case of successful ATT of a third molar replacing the adjacent fractured second molar in a 33 year old woman. This wisdom tooth had completely developed roots. Root-end filling with Calcium Enriched Mixture (CEM) cement was performed in...

OBJECTIVE The goal of this project was to report the complications associated with mandibular angle fractures and identify variables affecting their occurrence. METHODS We retrospectively reviewed the charts of patients with a mandibular angle fracture treated at the Centre hospitalier universitaire de Québec between 2009 and 2013. RESULTS Seventy-eight patients (73 males) aged 15-59 years ...

In humans, deciduous tooth development begins before birth and is complete by about the fourth postnatal year. They are lost when the patient becomes 11 years old. The permanent teeth appear by 6-7 years (and later for the wisdom teeth). Most are successional, and a few are non successional. The coronal part of the human tooth is composed of two hard tissues: enamel and dentin, and this part in...

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The aim of this study was to determine the extent to which the intensity of postoperative pain in the first seven days after lower wisdom tooth extraction is affected by operator experience, patient level of information and patient sex. Postoperative pain intensity after lower wisdom tooth extraction was assessed in 108 patients. Depending on the type of information given to each patient indivi...

Ameloblastoma is the most common odontogenic tumor, but the incidence of its metastasis is extremely low. We report a case of unicystic ameloblastoma metastasizing to the cervical lymph nodes. This patient pointed out a radiolucent cystic lesion with impacted wisdom tooth in the left mandibular region, and recieved enucleation of the cystic lesion and removal of the wisdom tooth. Histopathogica...