Dentistry and Craniofacial Research

Case report of impacted bilateral mandibular fourth molar

26^th International Conference on Advanced Dental Care
October 08-09, 2018 Moscow, Russia

Badria Al Matrafi

Prince Sultan Military Medical City, Saudi Arabia

Posters & Accepted Abstracts: Dent Craniofac Res

DOI: 10.21767/2576-392X-C4-012

Abstract

Supernumerary teeth are a rare dental anomaly in maxilla and mandible can be classified by shape and by position in the jaw. It might cause complication such as caries, perio dental disease, and delay or impaction of permanent teeth. Supernumerary tooth or hyperdontia is not as common as hypodontia. The prevalence in primary dentition .2% to .8% and in the permanent dentition .5% to 5.3% with geographic variation. The fourth molar is a kind of supernumerary tooth that have been classified as a type of paramolar or distomolars tooth. This is a case report of a 20 years old female patient (medically fit) who came to the dental clinic complaining of pain in the lower right quadrant upon clinical examination and routine radiographic examination revealed impacted third molar and unerupted bilateral mandibular fourth molar orthopantogram (OPG). X-ray showed this rare case of unerupted bilateral distomolar in mandible without any associated syndrome. This case report discusses the diagnosis and treatment of this rare case of impacted bilateral mandibular distomolar and in what condition shall we keep the fourth molar or extracted.

Biography

Badria Al Matrafi pursued her BDS (1991) at King Saud University, Riyadh, KSA and Academy of General Dentistry Certificate (2000) from University of Southern California, USA. She is a Consultant in Restorative dentistry at Riyadh Military Hospital, Riyadh, KSA. She was a Director of officer dental clinic and has several years of teaching and clinical supervision experience. She is a member of infection control team.

E-mail: dr_badria@hotmail.com