Case Report
Management of Impacted 2nd Premolar Impaction by Buccal Approach: A Case Report
Dipti Shastri*, Pradeep Tandon, Gyan P Singh and Alka Singh
Department of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopaedics, King George’s Medical University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
- *Corresponding Author:
- Dipti Shastri
Department of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopaedics
Faculty of Dental Sciences, King George’s Medical University
Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
Tel: 9235768813
E-mail: drdiptishastri@gmail.com
Received date: April 14, 2014; Accepted date: May 30, 2014; Published date: June 06, 2014
Citation: Dipti Shastri, Pradeep Tandon, Gyan P Singh, Alka Singh (2014) Management of Impacted 2nd Premolar Impaction by Buccal Approach: A Case Report. J Interdiscipl Med Dent Sci 2:124. doi:10.4172/2376-032X.1000124
Copyright: © 2014 Shastri D, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
This case report presents treatment of a distally impacted mandibular 2nd premolar having a 90° tilt to the long axis of the tooth. In this 16 year old girl radiological finding described that horizontally impacted mandibular second premolar was positioned below the roots of the mandibular first molar. Due to the abnormal position of impacted premolar, it was planned to be removed surgically. Finally, the horizontally impacted mandibular second premolar was extracted without any injury to the mental nerve.