Our demographic data reflects that reported from an investigation of practice patterns of oral and maxillofacial surgeons (those most qualified to remove impacted teeth) in Australia [ 31], where the largest proportion of clients seen (29percentt) were in the 18 24-year 18 24-year age a sligroup higher proportion (56 percent) were femand.
The most commonly encountered impacted tooth was mandibular third molar followed by the maxillary third molars.
Among those aged 44+ years, dental caries was the most common principle diagnosis, followed by impacted teeth (except for those aged 80+ years, where periapical abscess was the 2nd most common diagnosis).
This study has shown that treatment of impacted teeth was the most common reason for DGA receipt among 15+ year-old Australians between 1998 1999 and 2004 2005, followed by dental caries treatment.
Treatment of impacted teeth (63.7%) was the most common reason for DGA receipt, followed by dental caries treatment (12.4%), although marked variations were seen by age-group.
From the age of 45+ years, the most common reason for DGA care was for treatment of dental caries, indicating that removal of impacted teeth among this age-group is perhaps more dangerous or that people in this age-group have already had any problematic impacted teeth removed.
Previous studies have reported that the IAC is most frequently positioned on the lingual side of impacted third molars and that contact between the IAC and the impacted teeth was generally observed in those cases [ 10, 17, 23, 34].
So finding impacted teeth in a specimen this old suggests that the diet might have gotten softer sooner.
"And the outlying areas are the most impacted".
"The few studies of long-term retention of impacted teeth have shown little risk of harm," the association concluded.
