Submerging Deciduous Molars – An Extraction in Time!

From Volume 28, Issue 6, July 2001 | Pages 309-311

Authors

Judith Jones

Lecturer, King's and St. Thomas' Dental Institute London

Articles by Judith Jones

Paul D. Robinson

PhD, MBBS, FDS RCS (Eng.)

Senior Lecturer/Honorary Consultant, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Guy's, King's and St. Thomas' Dental Institute London

Articles by Paul D. Robinson

Abstract

A case is presented of a 25-year-old man with a submerged lower second deciduous molar and an impacted lower second premolar. Treatment was complicated by the relationship of the teeth to the inferior dental nerve, which necessitated extensive bone removal and mental nerve transposition to remove the submerged and impacted teeth. Early recognition and treatment of the submerging tooth might have prevented the need for such extensive surgery and morbidity at a later date.

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