Qualitative and quantitative assessment of relationship between mandibular third molar and angle fracture on North Indian population: A clinico-radiographic study

Suresh Yadav; Shallu Tyagi; Naveen Puri; Prince Kumar; Puneet Kumar

doi:10.4103/1305-7456.110188

European Journal of Dentistry, Table of Contents

CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 · Eur J Dent 2013; 07(02): 212-217
DOI: 10.4103/1305-7456.110188

Original Article

Dental Investigation Society

Qualitative and quantitative assessment of relationship between mandibular third molar and angle fracture on North Indian population: A clinico-radiographic study

Suresh Yadav

¹Departments of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Kalka Dental College and Hospital, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India

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Shallu Tyagi

²Departments of Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry, Kalka Dental College and Hospital Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India

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Naveen Puri

³Departments of Oral Pathology, Kalka Dental College and Hospital Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India

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Prince Kumar

⁴Departments of Prosthodontics, Shree Bankey Bihari Dental College and Research Centre, Ghaziabad, India

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Puneet Kumar

⁵Departments of Public Health Dentistry, Shree Bankey Bihari Dental College and Research Centre, Ghaziabad, India

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Objective: To assess the relationship between impacted mandibular third molar presence and the risk for mandibular angle fracture with the effect of various positions of mandibular third molar and the risk of mandibular angle fracture. Materials and Methods: In the North Indian territory, a total of 289 patients with mandibular angle fractures were studied and evaluated for the possible relationship with impacted third molar on the basis of clinical and panoramic radiographical findings. Results: Results that confirmed the highest risk for mandibular angle fracture was associated with mesioangular angulations (45.42%) followed by vertical (26.34%), distoangular in sequence and least risk was found with bucco-version angulations (2.67%) according to Winter′s classification. Additionally, the highest risk of mandibular angle fracture was reported with partially erupted third molar (47.75%), followed by erupted (23.53%) and unerupted third molar (19.38%). Conclusion: The risk for mandibular angle fracture is not only affected by status of eruption, angulations, position, number of roots present in third molar but also by the distance of mandibular third molar from inferior border of mandible and the percentage of remaining amount of bone at the mandibular angle region.

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