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Medical Conditions - Mandibular Third Molar Impaction

The third molar impaction occurs due to pericoronitis, dental caries, peridontitis, root resorption, cysts and tumors associated with the tooth. This impaction can be vertical, mesioangular, horizontal, distoangular, buccoangular, linguoangular, and inverted. Extraction is advised for the treatment of third molar impaction.

All mandibular third-molar-impaction Q&A

How is an impacted and tender wisdom tooth treated?

Hello, Welcome to icliniq.com. The wisdom tooth will have to be extracted on both sides eventually. Otherwise, the pain will keep on increasing.

What could delay the healing of a tooth extraction site?

Hi, Welcome to icliniq.com. I read your query and understand your concern. You are not supposed to touch the extraction site with any foreign objects.

What causes a white lump near a wisdom tooth?

Hi, Welcome to icliniq.com. Thank you for your query. Please send an image of the respective lesion. The third molar comes in the last. Sometimes it creates problems during the eruption.

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