10 September 2023
: Case report 
Inverted Maxillary Third Molar Impaction within the Maxillary Sinus: A Rare Case Report
Unusual clinical course
Alaa Waleed Alqutub
1BDEFG*
DOI: 10.12659/AJCR.941859
Am J Case Rep 2023; 24:e941859
Table 1. Reported cases of inverted maxillary third molar impactions in the current literature.
| Authors | Year | Number of reported cases | Management of inverted maxillary impaction |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gold J and Demby N | 1973 | Single case -First reported | Surgical removal of the impaction and the attached dentigerous cyst |
| Held HW | 1979 | Single case | Surgical removal |
| AlShamrani SM | 2001 | Two cases | Conservatively managed |
| Pai V, et al | 2008 | Single case | Conservatively managed |
| Yuvaraj and Agarwal GD | 2011 | Single case | Trans-alveolar surgical extraction |
| Chhabra S, et al | 2012 | Single case | Removal by lateral transposition method |
| Togoo RA | 2013 | Single case | No treatment |
| Ching-Yi C, et al | 2014 | Single case | Trans-alveolar surgical extraction |
| Abu-Mostafa N, et al | 2015 | Single case-bilateral | Conservatively managed |
| Popli G, et al | 2016 | Single case | Trans-alveolar surgical extraction |
| Sachdeva SK, et al | 2016 | Single case | Conservatively managed |
| Kaur S and Singh R | 2018 | Single case | Conservatively managed |
| Agarwal P, et al | 2019 | Five cases | Two managed surgically – three conservatively managed |
| Faraz A, at al | 2020 | Single case | Trans-alveolar surgical extraction |