The prevalence of root dilacerations in a Turkish population
- Autores: Ozkan Miloglu, Fatih Cakici, Fatma Caglayan, Ahmet Berhan Yilmaz, Fatma Demirkaya
- Localización: Medicina oral, patología oral y cirugía bucal. Ed. inglesa, ISSN-e 1698-6946, Vol. 15, Nº. 3 (Mayo), 2010
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
Objectives: The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of root dilaceration in a Turkish dental patient population with respect to sexes and dental localization in relation between sex and this anomaly.
Study Design: A retrospective study was performed using periapical radiography of 2,124 patients ranging in age from 15 to 65. All data (age, sex and systemic disease or syndrome) was obtained from the files. These patients were analyzed for root dilaceration. Descriptive characteristics of sexes, jaws, and dental localization were recorded.
The Pearson chi-squared test was used.
Results: Of 2,251 patients, 214 (9.5%) had root dilaceration. Root dilacerations were determined in 276 (4.3%) of 6386 teeth belong to 2251 patients. Anomalies were found in 9.8% of males compared with 9.3% of females.
However, this difference was not statistically significant (p>0.05). Root dilacerations were similarly distributed between maxilla and mandible. The most frequently root dilacerated teeth were found to be mandibular third molars (12.8%), followed by maxillary third molars (7.4%), maxillary first molars (6.7%). Root dilaceration was not detected in maxillary central incisors, mandibular central incisors and mandibular lateral incisors.
Conclusion: According to our results, root dilaceration is an uncommon developmental anomaly which mostly occurs in the posterior teeth that is not also possible to have trauma. The radiographic diagnosis of this anomaly is important before surgery and orthodontics treatment, but firstly endodontic treatment.
