title: Qualitative and quantitative assessment of relationship between mandibular third molar and angle fracture on North Indian population: A clinico-radiographic study.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To assess the relationship between impacted mandibular third molar presence and the risk for mandibular angle fracture with the effect of various positions of mandibular third molar and the risk of mandibular angle fracture.
  
  
  METHODS
  In the North Indian territory, a total of 289 patients with mandibular angle fractures were studied and evaluated for the possible relationship with impacted third molar on the basis of clinical and panoramic radiographical findings.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Results that confirmed the highest risk for mandibular angle fracture was associated with mesioangular angulations (45.42%) followed by vertical (26.34%), distoangular in sequence and least risk was found with bucco-version angulations (2.67%) according to Winter's classification. Additionally, the highest risk of mandibular angle fracture was reported with partially erupted third molar (47.75%), followed by erupted (23.53%) and unerupted third molar (19.38%).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The risk for mandibular angle fracture is not only affected by status of eruption, angulations, position, number of roots present in third molar but also by the distance of mandibular third molar from inferior border of mandible and the percentage of remaining amount of bone at the mandibular angle region.
authors.affiliation: Departments of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Kalka Dental College and Hospital, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India.
authors.forename: Suresh
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Yadav
authors.affiliation: Departments of Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry, Kalka Dental College and Hospital Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India.
authors.forename: Shallu
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Tyagi
authors.affiliation: Departments of Oral Pathology, Kalka Dental College and Hospital Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India.
authors.forename: Naveen
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Puri
authors.affiliation: Departments of Prosthodontics, Shree Bankey Bihari Dental College and Research Centre, Ghaziabad, India.
authors.forename: Prince
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Kumar
authors.affiliation: Departments of Public Health Dentistry, Shree Bankey Bihari Dental College and Research Centre, Ghaziabad, India.
authors.forename: Puneet
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Kumar
keywords: Angle fracture; impacted third molar; risk factor