DOI: 10.36347/sjams.2019.v07i01.033

Pages: 183-192

Dental impaction is one of the most common abnormalities encountered during orthodontic consultations. After the impacted wisdom teeth, permanent maxillary canines come in the second place concerning this malocclusion. Their prevalence varies from 1% to 3% depending on studied populations. However, there are no previous studies concerning maxillary impacted canines among Tunisian population. For this reason, we propose in this work, through a cross-sectional study, to assess the prevalence of this phenomenon among a Tunisian orthodontic sample as well as to study its associations with some factors such as: sex, dental abnormalities (shape, size, number...) and transversal abnormalities. Some consequences such as adjacent teeth’s resorption are also studied. Lastly, a preposition of orthodontic traction duration was given based on recent studies.