IMPACTED MAXILLARY CANINES AND THEIR ASSOCIATION WITH CONGENITALLY ABSENT TEETH AND OTHER IMPACTIONS

Liljana Stoil Stojanova; Vera Petkova; Irina Pavlovska

Liljana Stoil Stojanova PHI Medical Centre “Academic Prof Dimitar Arsov“, Kriva Palanka, North Macedonia,
Vera Petkova Otto-Friedrich-Universität-Bamberg, Deutschland
Irina Pavlovska Institute of Epidemiology and Biostatistics with Medical Informatics, Faculty of Medicine, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, North Macedonia

Abstract

As a result of numerous studies, dental anomalies associated with impacted maxillary canines (IMC) have been obtained. The most common such dental developmental anomaly is congenitally missing teeth (CMT) or aplasia. The ethnic specificity in their occurrence has been proven. Material and methods: To evaluate this association in our area, we conducted a cross-sectional study of 104 patients with IMC, proven by orthopantomographic imaging, in the northern part of the Republic of North Macedonia. The data analysis was performed in the statistical program Statistica. Results and discussion: No association of IMC with their associated anomalies such as aplasia or other impactions was found. Female patients with IMC more often than males have an anomaly such as aplasia – 11 (19.64%) vs 4 (8.33%). This described difference in the distribution of patients with and without aplasia, depending on their gender, was not sufficient for statistical significance (p=0.1). Conclusion: Further studies are needed to reflect the true ethnic specificity of the occurrence of the association of IMC with the agenesis of permanent teeth in the territory of our country.

Keywords: impacted maxillary canines, aplasia, associated dental anomalies.

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