ABSTRACT
Objective: To determine the frequency of impacted canines in orthodontics patients visiting KMDC
Study Design: Cross-sectional study
Place and Duration of Study: This study was carried out at Dental OPD of Karachi Medical Dental College, Karachi from July 2015 to December 2015
Materials and Methods: A sample size of 262 patients was taken. All the patients were 16 years or above. Diagnosis of canine impaction was made on clinical examination and OPG. Patients with history of extractions and trauma, cleft lip and palate and patients with syndrome were excluded from the study. Blurred OPG and inappropriate taken OPG of patients were also excluded. All the clinical examination and OPG analysis was done by same person
Results: Out of 262 patients 66 [25.1%] were male and 196 [74.9%] were female. Mean age of the patients were 19.6 years. Canine impaction was found to be 3.8% i.e. 10 patients have canine impactions. 3.04% patients have maxillary canine impactions and 0.76% patients have mandibular canine impactions. Male to female ratio was 1:4
Conclusion: A much higher frequency of impacted maxillary and mandibular canines was observed in our study. Male to female ratio is 1:4. Maxillary canines were impacted more frequently than mandibular. Left sides were most affected in the maxilla and mandible