Retrospective Investigation of the Prevalence of Impacted Teeth in Hatay

Abstract

Purpose: The purpose of this study were to examine localization, the prevalence of impacted permanent teeth and to perform the distributions according to sex and jaws in Hatay population. Material and methods: In this retrospective study, up to 5227 orthopantomograms of the patients (2865 women, 2362 men) who were referred to Mustafa Kemal University, Faculty of Dentistry, Hatay from December 2010 to June 2013 were examined. Data including the age, gender, localization were evaluated by statistical tests. Results: There were 2187 (% 41,8) patients having impacted teeth. The age of the patients ranged from 18 to 80. Among the impacted teeth, mandibular third molars were the most common (% 64,7), followed by maxillary third molars (% 30,9), maxillary canines (% 3,1), mandibular premolars (%0,4), mandibular canines (% 0,3), maxillary premolars (% 0,2), maxillary central and lateral incisors (% 0,2), mandibular central and lateral incisors (% 0,1), mandibular first and second molarlars (% 0,07), maxillary first and second molars (% 0,03) Conclusion: In later stages of the people who lives in Hatay's life, due to complications of impacted teeth usually extracted. The impacted teeth were seen without causing any symptoms in a small part of population. [Cukurova Med J 2014; 39(3.000): 559-565]

Keywords

• impacted teeth
• retrospective study
• prevelance