Prevalência de patologias associadas a terceiros molares inclusos: uma revisão de literatura.

Abstract

The third molars as the last teeth to erupt, and because of this factor, often do not find satisfactory space for their eruption, remain included / impacted, with the permanence of these third molars included in the arch may cause several pathological alterations, some of these in it is necessary to remove them surgically and in some cases can cause disruption and impairment of quality of life, however, the indication of extraction may be a way to avoid the appearance of these and other associated pathologies to these inclusions. This work aims to review the literature on the prevalence of pathologies associated with third molars included in relation to age, sex, type of inclusion and more frequent pathologies. Consisting of a review of the literature, for this it was carried out the collection of scientific data on the subject in databases such as: PUBMED (www.pubmed.com) and SCIELO (www.scielo.org) between 2000 and 2018 with inclusion of classical articles of the literature and were used 87 articles on the subject. It is concluded that pathologies associated with third molars included predisposition for women and young adults, type of inclusion more frequent being vertical, class II and position A and the pathology being the pericoronarite. All the particulars must influence the decision making process of the exodontia or not of a third molar included or retained, for this being necessary more studies on the subject and there is a lack of studies showing that the incidences are high on the pathologies associated with the third molars and advantages in the extraction of asymptomatic teeth.