third molar tooth

[TA]

eighth permanent tooth in the maxilla and mandible on each side, making it the most posterior tooth in human dentition; usually erupts between the 17th and 23rd years; the roots are often fused, the separation being marked only by grooves; because it tends to erupt in an anterosuperior direction, the lower third molar often becomes impacted against the lower second molar; it is common for one third molar (or more) to fail to develop.

Synonym(s): dens molaris tertius [TA], dens serotinus ☆ , dens sapientiae, third molar, wisdom tooth

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third mo·lar tooth

(thĭrd mō'lăr tūth) [TA]

Eighth permanent tooth in maxilla and mandible on each side, making it most posterior tooth in human dentition; usually erupts between the 17th and 23rd years; roots are often fused, separation being marked only by grooves; because it tends to erupt in an anterosuperior direction, lower third molar often becomes impacted against lower second molar; common for one third molar (or more) to fail to develop.
Synonym(s): dens serotinus [TA] , wisdom tooth.

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third mo·lar tooth

(thĭrd mō'lăr tūth) [TA]

Medical Dictionary for the Dental Professions © Farlex 2012

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Association between Age and Eruption of Third Molar Tooth: The median age of the study subjects was 20 years.

The eruption of third molar tooth is strongly associated with [greater than or equal to] 20 years (P<0.001) The odds ratio explains the eruption of third molar tooth in the ages of [greater than or equal to] 20 years was nearly 4.8 times greater than the <20 years and the same will be in the population in between 2.6 to 8.7 times @ 95% C I.

Assessment of age by third molar eruption among females in South Tamilnadu

Pain following surgical extraction of impacted third molar tooth is frequently moderate to severe in nature and is a well documented and validated method to study pain5.

This study is primarily designed to test the efficacy of acetaminophen in comparison with the prototype NSAID ibuprofen in postoperative impacted third molar tooth extraction pain both of which are available over the counter.

IBUPROFEN VERSUS ACETAMINOPHEN IN CONTROLLING POSTOPERATIVE IMPACTED THIRD MOLAR TOOTH EXTRACTION PAIN

All tracings of the third molar tooth from the radiograph on the cephalometric tracing film were done.

ASSESSMENT OF DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY OF ORTHOPANTOMOGRAM IN DETERMINING THE ROOT MORPHOLOGY OF IMPACTED MANDIBULAR THIRD MOLARS

Also the size of each permanent third molar tooth and supernumerary tooth was assessed in panoramic radiograph which was later on confirmed

PREVALENCE OF SUPERNUMARARIES AND THEIR ASSOCIATION WITH CONGENITAL ABSENCE OF THIRD MOLARS IN ORTHODONTIC PATIENTS

The term impaction means a tooth which is partially erupted or unerupted when its path of erup- tion into occlusal plane is obstructed by other tooth bone or soft tissue.1 Eruption of third molar tooth is an usual event which occurs in almost every human life.

Pattern of third molar impaction: frequency and types among patients attending urban teaching hospital of Karachi