The rarest cause of impaction of mandibular third molar – A case report

Abstract

Mandibular tooth impaction is a very common finding and is usually associated with so many local and systemic causes in which the pathway of tooth eruption is obstructed or misdirected. The local causes are either a local bony lesion or an abnormal position of the adjacent tooth. The case presented here is associated with a very rare cause of impaction, which is the hamartomatus growth of the first and second molars causing the obstruction and leading to the impaction of the adjacent third molar tooth.

Keywords

• Impaction
• Third molar
• Odontome
• Mandibular molar
• Impacted thirdmolar