Unusual Presentations of Dental Impactions: CBCT-based Pictorial Review

The advent of Cone Beam Computed Tomography (CBCT) has significantly transformed the field of Oral maxillofacial radiology. This has brought a true paradigm shift from two-dimensional to three-dimensional imaging. Impacted teeth are frequently encountered in clinical practice and may predispose to dental caries, infections, resorption of adjacent teeth, neural compression, periapical pathology, and the development of cysts or tumours. CBCT plays a pivotal role in the evaluation of impacted teeth by defining the exact position of the tooth and its relation to the vital structures. Moreover, it also reveals the hidden aspects of an impacted tooth, like its morphological alterations, that are not shown on two-dimensional radiography. Authors, hereby present a plethora of such deceptive impactions caught on a CBCT.