Impacted Premolars

From Volume 32, Issue 3, April 2005 | Pages 152-157

Authors

Patrick PC Lee

BDS, MFGDP, MGDS RCS(Ed.), FRACDS

General Practitioner, 688 Nathan Road, Mong Kok, Kowloon, Hong Kong

Articles by Patrick PC Lee

Abstract

Tooth impaction is not uncommon among the population. Its management is important aesthetically and functionally to the patient. Treatment ranges from regular review, extraction of the primary tooth, surgical exposure of the impacted tooth, with or without orthodontic traction, auto-transplantation to its surgical removal. Any decision taken should be judged on individual merit.

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