FDI World Dental
Federation
Section of Defence Forces
Dental Services
Salvador de Bahia, Brazil
30 Aug – 1 Sep 2010
The deadline for the receipt
of abstracts and summaries:
30 May 2010,
latest 26 June 2010
ABSTRACT AND
SUMMARY FORM
TITLE
IMPACTED CANINES: RECOGNITION, AVOIDANCE, AND MANAGEMENT
Author(s)
Jared O. DEAN, U.S. Army Dental Corps, Grafenwoehr Dental Clinic, Grafenwoehr,
Germany.
Abstract:
With the exception of third molars, canines are the most frequently impacted teeth in the
mouth. Management of these teeth in an adult population is costly in terms of treatment
time and financial resources. Skilled monitoring and management of developing
dentitions can mitigate or even eliminate damage caused by impacted canines. This
presentation will discuss the prevalence, etiology, and sequelae of impacted canines. It
will also describe techniques for diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of impacted
canines.
Summary:
The aim of this presentation is to educate participating dentists on impacted canines. The
topic is one with application for all specialties of dentistry, as all could conceivably be
involved in the diagnosis or treatment of an impacted canine.
Canines are the second most commonly impacted tooth in the human dentition, following
third molars in prevalence. Differences in impaction of maxillary and mandibular canines
as well as differences in prevalence for males and females will be discussed. Rates for
palatal and labial impactions are different and will be presented.
The etiology and sequelae of impacted canines will also be discussed. Although the
possible etiological factors are debatable, the negative effects of canine impactions are
easily recognizable and almost universally unfavorable.
The most cost effective treatment for canine impaction is early detection of risk factors
and subsequent preventive measures. Various clinical and radiographic techniques for
identifying canines that are or may become impacted will be presented. Strategies for
avoiding impaction through techniques such as early primary canine removal will be
shown.
The majority of a military population is past the age where preventive techniques are
useful. Therefore, techniques for surgical exposure of these teeth as well as orthodontic
management before and after surgical exposure will be discussed. Complications of
attempting to orthodontically reposition impacted canines will be enumerated.
Following the presentation, those in attendance should have a better understanding of
how to recognize and effectively manage the treatment of impacted canines in his or her
patient population.
SDFDS: Presentation Submission Guidelines
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Electronic submissions are strongly encouraged.
A request for presentation is initiated by submitting a completed Abstract and Summary Form.
Authors submitting more than one proposal must complete and submit individual Abstract and
Summary forms on separate e-mails.
The official language of the congress is English and all presentation submissions must be typed in
English.
The content of the abstract and summary is solely the responsibility of the author. The original
submission is reprinted exactly as provided. It is therefore essential that the submission is correctly
typed. Avoid errors, corrections and misspellings.
The recommended font is Times New Roman, size 10. Use single spacing.
Abstracts sent by fax will not be processed by the Secretariat.
The following guidelines should be followed when completing the form:
 Title.
 Title should be typed in UPPER CASE letters in bold and not exceed more than 100
characters.
 Author(s) name.
 First name
 Family name (omit titles and degrees)
 Institution including city and country (no street address)
 Underline the presenting author’s name
 Abstracts text section.
 Abstracts should be limited to 250 words excluding the title and information about the
authors.
 At the end of the section you may include 2 key words.
 Summary text section. Type the summary text in font size 10.
 Summaries (500-1000 words) should clearly state the goals of the presentation.
 Summaries related to research investigations should also include a statement of the materials
and methods, results and conclusions of the study.
Electronic submissions
 Electronic submission of Request for Presentation forms, Abstracts and Summaries will be through
e-mail.
 Abstracts and summaries should be in Rich-text-format (RTF) or Microsoft Word format or plain
text. If an author has need of special symbols that are likely to display incorrectly in an electronic
submission please send an additional version of the documents in Adobe Acrobat format (i.e. PDF)
with fonts embedded. Use Times New roman font for both the abstract and summary. All lines
should be single-spaced.
 Send your submission to Arthur.Scott@us.army.mil and james.taylor2@forces.gc.ca
No Paper Submissions please