Radiographic Changes in the Position of Mandibular Third Molar after Treatment of Extraction and Non-Extraction Patients

An observational study is carried out to investigate the changes in the angle of placement of impacted wisdom teeth and the level of impaction in orthodontic patients who have the largest volume of prophylactic extraction of wisdom teeth, in order to take the first steps towards defining growth prediction models to be picked up. The data required for this study were obtained from patients who had been referred to orthodontic offices for the treatment of their malocclusions. The study was conducted on 164 third-molar teeth. In this study, changes in the longitudinal axis of the mandibular third molars relative to the lower wall of the inferior alveolar nerve canal were also measured. Finally, the obtained data were analyzed descriptively and analytically using SPSS version 16 software. During the study, there were 164 teeth that had an angle of more than 15 degrees, among which 154 teeth were in the B or C primary growth level (10 teeth in the jaw had a low initial growth level of A. If we consider the growth conditions for a wisdom tooth to be placed at an angle of less than 15 degrees and the growth level of A, among the 154 mentioned teeth, 36 teeth reached these conditions at the end of the study. In growth prediction studies, the most important issue is to judge based on angle change rather than growth level change and angle change is a more important and reliable criterion.