Indications for removal for impacted canines

Removal of impacted canines:


Every effort should be made to give a chance of eruption to the impacted canine by artificial eruption or by surgical positioning or by combination of surgery and orthodontics especially in younger individuals because canine is an important tooth as far as occlusion is concerned..

Indications for removal of impacted canines:

1.Change in position of the adjacent teeth because of pressure exerted due to the attempt for eruption of the canine..

2.Resorption of roots of adjacent teeth because of pressure exerted by the impacted canine..

3.Cyst formation from the follicle around the canine..Attempt should be made to remove the cyst and facilitate the eruption of impacted canine..

4.Repair of cleft palate may cause scarring and narrowing of the arch leaving no place for canine to erupt..

5.In edentulous jaw,an impacted canine can be left unnoticed...It will then start erupting with the denture and cause irritation..

6.Pain in eye,ear,side of the head,entire face and back of neck can be attributed to impacted canine and calls for its removal..

7.Canines lying in unusual positions like naso-antral wall or floor of the orbit are indicated to be extracted as they may not start erupting in the nasal cavity or on the face..