Treatment of impacted mandibular second molars in a hyperdivergent patient: A case report

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Impaction of second molars, whether maxillary or mandibular, is an uncommon but clinically significant anomaly in orthodontics, with a reported prevalence ranging from 0.03% to 2.3%, depending on the population studied.1 Unlike third molars, which are frequently impacted and often extracted prophylactically, impacted second molars are traditionally preserved to establish and maintain functional occlusion. Etiology of … Read more