Japanese Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
Online ISSN : 2186-1579
Print ISSN : 0021-5163
ISSN-L : 0021-5163
Case reports
A case of kissing molars
Susumu HASHITANISakyo KINOTomoko KAWANOTakamichi YANAGISAWA
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2017 Volume 63 Issue 10 Pages 512-516

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Kissing molars is an extremely rare condition of impacted permanent molars that have occlusal surfaces in contact with each other in a single follicular space, with roots pointing in opposite directions. Fully-impacted permanent molars occur only in the mandible.

 The patient was a 26-year-old woman with discomfort of the mandibular right molars. Panoramic radiography and computed tomography showed the full impaction of the second and third mandibular right molars, which had occlusal surfaces in contact with each other in a single follicular space, with their roots pointing in opposite directions. Associated follicular tissue was removed along with both molars. Histopathologically, the lesion was diagnosed as a dentigerous cyst. The postoperative course was uneventful.

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