Clinical, radiological and surgical evaluation of impacted lower 3.molars

In this study, clinical, radiological and surgical evaluation of impacted lower third molars which were planned to extract was performed. For this reason, preoperative, intraoperative and postoperative results of 600 teeth of 458 patients were analyzed. The impacted teeth have been classified according to the M 3 distance, and adjacent tissue pathologies have been recorded. Additionally, distrubition of the impacted teeth according to sex and the degree of impaction was detected. Neverthless, indication for extraction of these impacted teeth and the complications occured during and after the surgical extraction were determined. Our results, compared with the current literature showed that impacted lower 3.molars can not only cause various pathologies in the adjacent tissues. But also can cause complications during and after the operation. These complications can be eliminated with the precise and necessary interventions.