Dogukan Yilmaz, Emel Tuğba Ataman-Duruel, Zehra Beycioğlu, Samir Goyushov, Tansu Çimen, Onurcem Duruel, Tolga Fikret Tözüm
OBJECTIVES: The aim of this retrospective study was to investigate anatomical structure of mandibular canal and the factors those increase the possibility of inferior alveolar nerve damage in mandibular third molar region of Turkish population. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Overall 320 participants with 436 mandibular third molars were included from four different study centers. Following variables were measured: type and depth of third molar impaction, position of mandibular canal in relation to third molars, morphology of mandibular canal, cortication status of mandibular canal, possible contact between the third molars and mandibular canal, thickness and density of superior, buccal, and lingual mandibular canal wall, bucco-lingual and apico-coronal mandibular canal diameters on cone-beam computed tomography scans...
2022: Journal of Oral & Maxillofacial Research