Acute inflammation in horizontal incompletely impacted third molar with radiolucency in the elderly

Figures & data

Figure 1 Radiograph of a 58-year-old woman with acute pericoronitis without pericoronal radiolucency below the crown.

Figure 2 Radiograph of a 41-year-old man with acute pericoronitis with pericoronal radiolucency below the crown.

Figure 3 Radiograph of a 48-year-old woman with acute pericoronitis with pericoronal radiolucency below the crown.

Table 1 Acute inflammation in teeth with or without radiolucency

Age (y)	Gender	With radiolucency	Acute inflammation		Severe acute inflammation	Without radiolucency	Acute inflammation		Severe acute inflammation
41–50	Men	76	20	26.32%	1^c	47	12	25.53%	0
	Women	54	11a	20.37%	0	39	4	10.26%	0
51–60	Men	35	9	25.71%	1	14	2	14.29%	0
	Women	23	2b	8.70%	0	20	3	15.00%	0
≥61	Men	22	11	50.00%	4c	6	2	33.33%	0
	Women	7	5a,b	71.43%	0	7	2	28.57%	0
Total	Men	133	40	30.08%	6	67	16	23.88%	0
	Women	84	18	21.43%	0	66	9	13.64%	0
	M+W	217	58	26.73%	6	133	25	18.80%	0

Notes:

^a p <0.05

^b,c p < 0.01.