[Should we or should we not extract impacted teeth?]

Abstract

Do we have to remove the impacted teeth? The pathology of an impacted tooth is reviewed by the author as well as the possible complications of its removal and others treatment possibilities. Seeing the increase of pathology and operative complications owing to the age, the author propounds the management of immature impacted third molars when they are not in a propitious position or when the posterior eruption space is reduced. About the impacted teeth covered partially or completely by soft tissue, his advice consists too in removing them if they don't have the possibility to take up good position on the dental arch.