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Treatment of mandibular second molar impaction in a patient with metal hypersensitivity Cover

Treatment of mandibular second molar impaction in a patient with metal hypersensitivity

Open Access
|Oct 2021

Abstract

It is widely accepted that the prevalence of metal hypersensitivity is increasing. Furthermore, the incidence of unerupted mandibular second molars is 2.3%, of which 0.2% is judged to be a result of impaction. While it is becoming more common to treat impacted mandibular second molars in daily clinical practice, metal hypersensitive patients presenting with unerupted molars are less frequently encountered. There have been no previous reports of patients who required mandibular molar traction and who also suffered from metal hypersensitivity. Therefore, this is the first case report to describe the long-term stability of mandibular second molar dis-impaction, leading to high level of patient satisfaction.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21307/aoj-2021.034 | Journal eISSN: 2207-7480 | Journal ISSN: 2207-7472
Language: English
Page range: 313 - 320
Published on: Oct 20, 2021
Published by: Australian Society of Orthodontists Inc.
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

© 2021 Yoshie Takehana, Yasunori Miyauchi, Toru Kageyama, published by Australian Society of Orthodontists Inc.
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.