Severe Impaction of the Primary Mandibular Second Molar Accompanied by Displacement of the Permanent Second Premolar

• Main Authors: Junko Matsuyama (Author), Shoko Kinoshita-Kawano (Author), Sachiko Hayashi-Sakai (Author), Tomoe Mitomi (Author), Tomiko Sano-Asahito (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Hindawi Limited, 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Tooth impaction is defined as any tooth that fails to erupt into a normal functional position and remains unerupted beyond the time at which it should normally erupt. Reports of impaction and eruption failure in primary teeth are relatively rare compared to permanent teeth. We report 2 rare cases wh...