Incidence of cysts with impacted teeth

“Missing” teeth are a fairly common occurrence in canine patients. Practitioners may not typically investigate these due to lack of outward clinical signs. However, there are often significant conseuences to “missing” teeth, despite the lack of outward clinical signs. There are four possible reasons for “missing” teeth, including congenitally missing, previously extracted or exfoliated, retained tooth roots, or impacted teeth. Two of these four etiologies are pathologic, and diagnosis generally requires dental radiographs.

Source: Advances in Small Animal Medicine and Surgery - August 1, 2017 Category: Veterinary Research Tags: Dentistry Source Type: research