Impacted Teeth

TREATMENTS FOR

Impacted Teeth

  • What is it?
  • Treatment Options

Teeth develop high in the jaw bone and must travel a long way to reach their correct location. Teeth sometimes get lost and become stuck against other teeth or other structures in your mouth. This condition is most frequent with the eye teeth.

Leaving an impacted tooth long term results in considerable damage to the adjacent teeth, cystic formation in the bone as well as eventual failure of the affected primary tooth.

Early detection and intervention (around 9-11) is very important. When diagnosed early, treatment can be as simple as an expander plate, or partial braces. Sometimes, it will be recommended to remove the primary tooth to encourage the impacted tooth to erupt correctly.

When diagnosed and treated later in life, treatment often involves exposure of the tooth and moving the impacted tooth into place using braces. Removal of the impacted tooth is not recommended, especially the upper eye teeth due to the tendency of bone resorption and a sunken facial profile in adult life.

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