Gender Predilection Through Prevalence of Impacted Tooth: A Study based on Original Research in the Central India

Abstract

Objective: Impacted teeth are those that remain unerupted, either completely or partially. Impacted tooth are commonly seen in routine dental practice and its prevalence is seen higher in third molars. This study aims to determine the frequency of impacted teeth in patients visiting a dental college in Central India. Only OPG data was collected and evaluated for prevalence and gender related frequency in 749 patients.

Material & Method: This study was an incidental finding which was OPG (orthopantomogram) based and the total number of 749 patients with OPGs were evaluated for the duration of 6 months out of which 345 were females and 404 were male patients.

Results: Impacted teeth are very commonly encountered in day-to-day dental practice. The prevalence of impacted teeth was 20.7%. Upper molar impaction was prevalent in females, which showed significant results.

Conclusion: Early detection of impacted teeth is very important to prevent any complications. Impacted teeth if left untreated for a prolonged period of time also leads to tooth ankylosis and thereby hinders adjacent tooth eruption.