Relationship between upper lateral incisors anomalies and palatal displaced canine: a case-control retrospective study
Background: An observational case-control study was designed to retrospectively assess the association among sex, skeletal and dental variables and the and the palatal maxillary canine impaction. Methods: The STROBE guidelines were followed. The records of 2195 subjects were analyzed. The data records of subjects with palatally displaced canine (PDC) were compared with the data of randomly selected subjects without PDC. Descriptive statistics, logistic regression model and χ2 test were used.