Canine impaction is one of the most challenging anomalies treated in orthodontics, requiring a lot of time and resources. Canines are among the most important teeth both for smile design and dental occlusion, so their lack on the dental arches is quite visible for the patient and quite problematic for the dental practitioner.so there is need for further investigation on a bigger sample and territory. Most frequent dental anomaly found in impacted canine's patients was the pathology of lateral incisor: Whether it was the size or shape or its agenesispathology. Moreover, the percentage of any dental anomaly among patients with at least one impacted canine was very high – 64.3%. More studies are necessary to assess the clinical pattern of canine impaction and its associated different dental anomalies and in other areas of Europe and of the world – 35.7% of the impacted canine's patients had a sort of lateral incisor .

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