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CARDOSO, Randerson Menezes; CARDOSO, Renan Menezes; CARDOSO, Ryhan Menezes  e  MEDEIROS, Marco Aurélio Queiroga Bezerra de. The Dentist's Quandary in the decision of the Third Molar's extraction. Odontol. Clín.-Cient. (Online) [online]. 2012, vol.11, n.2, pp. 103-108. ISSN 1677-3888.

The crowding is one of the vulgarity diseases and in such a way compromises the aesthetic harmony of the smile and also the harmony of the occlusion. It is characterized by the lack of space in the arc to accommodate the dental elements of harmonic form. In the adolescence and after-adolescence, mainly in the previous and inferior elements, the crowding tends if to reveal/to aggravate sufficiently inconvenience the patients. For occurring in the period next to the eruption of the third molar, the third molar are associated with the manifestation it crowding. Ahead of the problem, the present work objectified to carry through a literary revision in the data bases of MEDLINE and BBO in last the 10 years (1999-2009) on main existing chains regarding the influence of the third molar lower in the crowding late and of the quandary faced for the dentist in the decision to indicate the extraction.

Palavras-chave : Malocclusion; Molar; Third; Orthodontics.