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Vigneswaran AT, Shilpa S. The incidence of cysts and tumors associated with impacted third molars. J Pharm Bioallied Sci. 2015;7:S251-4doi: 10.4103/0975-7406.155940.
Vigneswaran, A. T., & Shilpa, S. (2015). The incidence of cysts and tumors associated with impacted third molars. Journal of pharmacy & bioallied sciences, 7S251-4. https://doi.org/10.4103/0975-7406.155940
Vigneswaran, A T, and Shilpa, S. "The incidence of cysts and tumors associated with impacted third molars." Journal of pharmacy & bioallied sciences vol. 7 (2015): S251-4. doi: https://doi.org/10.4103/0975-7406.155940
Vigneswaran AT, Shilpa S. The incidence of cysts and tumors associated with impacted third molars. J Pharm Bioallied Sci. 2015 Apr;7:S251-4. doi: 10.4103/0975-7406.155940. PMID: 26015725; PMCID: PMC4439685.
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J Pharm Bioallied Sci. 2015 Apr;7:S251-4. doi: 10.4103/0975-7406.155940.

The incidence of cysts and tumors associated with impacted third molars.

Journal of pharmacy & bioallied sciences

A T Vigneswaran, S Shilpa

Affiliations

  1. Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Sree Balaji Dental College and Hospital, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.

PMID: 26015725 PMCID: PMC4439685 DOI: 10.4103/0975-7406.155940

Abstract

Incidence of cysts and tumors associated with lower impacted third molars are very low prevalence, which might be because of the fact that most pathologies go unnoticed as many practitioners discard the erupted tissue after surgical removal of the impacted teeth rather than sending the tissue for histopathological examination. Our aim was to evaluate the patients who came for third molar surgical removal with due therapeutic prophylacis and an incidental finding. A proper study protocol both inclusion and exclusion criteria was strictly followed for all the cases, which were included in the study. The period of study was 6 years and the total number of cases assessed were 2778 patients out of which 70 cases reported pathology associated with the impacted third molars. Among 70 cases 61.4% were reported as cyst and tumors and 38.6% of the cases had chronic inflammatory reaction, including two cases with normal dental follicle. High incidence rate of pathology associated with third molar occurred between age group of 20 and 30 years older age groups showed very low incidence. Most common site of impaction was found to be left side of mandible and positions were vertical and distoangular impactions. Thus was male predominance in the younger groups. The examination is necessary whether the third molars impacted cases were symptomatic or asymptomatic.

Keywords: 3rd molars; Cyst; impactions; tumor

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