Open AccessDigital Assessment of Difficulty in Impacted Mandibular Third Molar Extraction
Author(s) -
Mohammad Ahmad Mohammad Farooque Ansari,
Ankita Mutha
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of maxillofacial and oral surgery/journal of maxillofacial and oral surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.293
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 0974-942X
pISSN - 0972-8279
DOI - 10.1007/s12663-019-01265-2
Subject(s) - molar , calculator , software , mandibular third molar , computer science , presentation (obstetrics) , dentistry , oral surgery , orthodontics , medicine , radiology , programming language , operating system
In recent era of computer and software technology, it is necessary to introduce software which helps in routine assessment of surgical procedures practiced in oral surgery. Removal of impacted third molar is a common procedure. It is hard to evaluate factors that complicate removal of impacted third molars because of the large variation among patients and the difficulty in creating a study design. In this article, we have described about our newly designed software developed in order to assess the difficulty in extracting impacted mandibular third molars accurately, thereby reducing the bias faced during the assessment of difficulty in removing impacted mandibular third molar.