Ehsan Abouei Mehrizi
1*, Mostafa Esmaeili
2, Gholamreza Eslami Amirabadi
3, • Mohammadamin Narimani
31 Post-graduate Student, Department of Orthodontics, Faculty of Dentistry, Shahed University, Tehran, Iran
2 Post-graduate Student, Department of Oral Medicine, Faculty of Dentistry, Shahed University, Tehran, Iran
3 Assistant Professor, Department of Orthodontics, Faculty of Dentistry, Shahed University, Tehran, Iran
1 Post-graduate Student, Department of Orthodontics, Faculty of Dentistry, Shahed University, Tehran, Iran
2 Post-graduate Student, Department of Oral Medicine, Faculty of Dentistry, Shahed University, Tehran, Iran
3 Assistant Professor, Department of Orthodontics, Faculty of Dentistry, Shahed University, Tehran, Iran
Abstract
Third molar eruption is an unpredictable event. Occasionally, mandibular third molars undergo angular changes in young
adults. This rotational drift is of unknown etiology, is not predictable and may facilitate the eruption or may make the impaction
worse. A rare case is presented with severe rotational drift of a mesioangularly impacted mandibular third molar.