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Multiple maxillary and mandibular impacted teeth and the retained root of #36 were extracted under general anesthesia in February 2013.
For purposes of computing DMFT (decayed, missing, and filled teeth) scores [ 38], a retained root was considered to have either 4 carious surfaces if it was an anterior tooth or 5 carious surfaces if it was a posterior tooth.
Using multiple logistic regression techniques with social impact summary scores as the dependent variables, periodontal pocketing, missing teeth, retained root fragments, dental caries and problem motivated dental visits were all associated with high levels of dissatisfaction with oral health.
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Therefore, IPO has been a controversial operation since it lacks a long-term follow-up of retained roots.
To monitor the long-term morbidity of retained roots up to 5 years following lower third molars coronectomy with close proximity to the inferior alveolar nerve (IAN).
Chinese studies reporting mean residually retained roots are even rarer.
We found that the association between smoking status and the mean number of retained dental roots was statistically significant, but not clinically relevant (1.0 retained roots for smokers vs. 1.4 retained roots for non-smokers).
Periodontal data were not recorded from third molars or carious retained roots.
Several tooth-sites were excluded from the examination; impacted teeth, retained roots, grossly broken down teeth, teeth which were too inaccessible to examine satisfactorily.
Teeth with grade III mobility, retained roots, or extensive crown destruction (i.e., at least three-fourths of the clinical crown destroyed) were excluded.
These adverse events included: one erroneous extraction, four cases of retained roots following tooth extractions, eight cases relating to endodontic therapy (including fractured instruments, perforations and leakage of sodium hypochlorite into the apical tissues) and two cases of crowns being swallowed by patients.
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