Episode 163
Food Impaction in Dentistry: Revisited
About this episode
Why do we get food impaction even when the contact is closed?
In this episode of DentCast we turned to a 2023 review that went through 72 studies to survey the different causes of food impaction and the ways it is treated.
From an opened contact and tooth movement to the role of occlusion, the morphology of restorations and the condition of the papilla.
The main point is that food impaction does not always mean an open contact, and to treat it properly we first have to find its real cause.
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Keywords
Food Impaction
Vertical & Horizontal Impaction
Proximal Contact Loss
Plunger Cusp
Food impaction with a closed contact
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Sources
- Truong VM, Kim S, Yi YJ, Park YS. Food Impaction in Dentistry: Revisited. Oral Health Prev Dent. 2023;21:229-242. DOI
The full text of the paper is available in the DentCast Library.
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