Iris Publishers Journal of Dentistry & Oral Health

Authored by  MA Postnikov, Relevance Diagnosis and treatment of patients with impaction of permanent teeth is one of the urgent problems of modern dentistry due to morphological, functional and aesthetic changes that occur in case of absence of a tooth in the dentition, which leads to violation of the social adaptation of the individual. Today, tooth impaction is a fairly common anomaly of the maxillofacial system: for 100 children seeking orthodontic care, 15-20 have malocclusion complicated by the impaction of one or more teeth (Budkova TS, Zhigurt Yu I, Khoroshilkina FI, 1997). The front teeth of the upper jaw are more often impacted: Central incisors and canines-61.6% (Stepanov GV, 2008). In classical cases of treatment of patients with impacted teeth, traditional orthodontic treatment should be chosen [1,2,3]. However, in cases when the impacted tooth has an anomaly of location, improper inclination or unfavorable individual anatomical features, undoubtedly, co...