title: Endodontic management of an impacted premolar.
abstract: This report demonstrates a simple endodontic solution to an interdisciplinary case of a patient with multiple gene deficiencies. An adolescent patient presented with an impacted premolar that could not be extracted due to high-risk conditions. A suspicious degree of radiolucency around the crown was clinically diagnosed as dentigerous cyst. The treatment dilemma and implementation are discussed. This case report offers a different treatment option for impacted teeth when significant differential diagnosis of a pericoronal lesion dictates treatment.
authors.affiliation: Department of Endodontics, Tufts University School of Dental Medicine, Boston, MA 02111, USA. Virginia.karapanou@tufts.edu
authors.forename: Virginia
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Karapanou
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000567:Amelogenesis Imperfecta / Q000150:complications; D001641:Bicuspid; D003803:Dentigerous Cyst / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008336:Mandibular Diseases / Q000601:surgery*; D013577:Syndrome; D014095:Tooth, Impacted / Q000628:therapy*; D019553:Tooth, Nonvital / Q000628:therapy*