Does craniofacial morphology affect third molars impaction? Results from a population-based study in northeastern Germany

• Stefan Kindler ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Stefan Kindler, Amro Daboul

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: kindlers@uni-greifswald.de

  Affiliation Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery/Plastic Surgery, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8985-1546

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• Till Ittermann,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute for Community Medicine, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

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• Robin Bülow,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Software, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute for Diagnostic Radiology and Neuroradiology, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

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• Birte Holtfreter,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Restorative Dentistry, Periodontology, Endodontology, and Preventive and Pediatric Dentistry, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

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• Catharina Klausenitz,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute for Diagnostic Radiology and Neuroradiology, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

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• Philine Metelmann,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Orthodontics, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

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• Maria Mksoud,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery/Plastic Surgery, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

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• Christiane Pink,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Restorative Dentistry, Periodontology, Endodontology, and Preventive and Pediatric Dentistry, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

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• Christian Seebauer,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery/Plastic Surgery, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

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• Thomas Kocher,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Restorative Dentistry, Periodontology, Endodontology, and Preventive and Pediatric Dentistry, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

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• Thomas Koppe,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

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• Karl-Friedrich Krey,

  Roles Data curation, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Orthodontics, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

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• Hans-Robert Metelmann,

  Roles Conceptualization, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery/Plastic Surgery, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

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• Henry Völzke,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute for Community Medicine, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

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• Amro Daboul

  Contributed equally to this work with: Stefan Kindler, Amro Daboul

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Prosthodontics, Gerodontology and Biomaterials, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

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