Year: 2024 | Month: August | Volume: 14 | Issue: 8 | Pages: 125-128
DOI: https://doi.org/10.52403/ijhsr.20240816
Fortuitous Displacement of Maxillary Impacted Third Molar in Infra-temporal fossa: A Case Report
Dr. Deepika Vyas1, Dr. Ashish Vyas2, Dr. Prafull Pujari3, Dr. Vrushti Ramanuj4
1Reader, Department of Public Health Dentistry, Vyas Dental College and Hospital, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India.
2Professor, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Vyas Dental College and Hospital, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India.
3Senior Resident, Department of Dentistry, AIIMS Rajkot, Gujarat, India.
4Senior Resident, Department of Dentistry, GMERS, Morbi, Gujarat, India.
Corresponding Author: Dr. Prafull Pujari
ABSTRACT
Impacted third molar surgery is one of the complicated dentoalveolar surgeries. By having appropriate safety measures these surgeries can be caried out without much complication. Removal of impacted third maxillary molar is frequently carried out without difficulties and low rate of intraoperative complications. Here we are presenting an uncommon case of an impacted maxillary third molar having peri-apical abscess that was unintentionally displaced into the infra temporal space during its extraction. Displaced tooth was retrieved from infratemporal fossa region under general anaesthesia. It is a very rare complication to be happen during routine surgical extraction of maxillary impacted third molar tooth.
Key words: Maxillary third molar, Infra-temporal fossa, Displacement of tooth, Dentoalveolar surgery, Surgical Complication.