EC Dental Science

Human teeth have been found with impacted and remain un erupted resulting with multiple complications which will be diagnosed on radiographic examination. The present article shows an impacted maxillary left third molar in a 73-year-old female Indian patient which had idiopathic intra-coronal resorption in association with large periapical cyst. Reports of idiopathic intra-coronal resorption are rarely found in the literature and hence with intention of reporting such rare dental phenomenon the present article is reported.

 Keywords: Coronal Resorption; Cone-Beam Computed Tomography; Impaction: Maxillary Molar; Third Molar

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