## 3 Results  
This study included 550 patients. Of these, 248 (46%) were female and 302 (54%) were male, and a total of 1752 third molar teeth were investigated (Table 1). The age of the patients who were the subjects of this study ranged from 16 to 65 years, with a mean age of 29 years. The highest prevalence of third molars included in this study were observed in patients belonging to the 20-29 years of age group. The total number of third molars in this group is 1050 (60%). The number of third molars included in this study decreased with increasing age (Table 2). \begin{table}
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**Gender** & **Number of Patients** & **Ratio of Patients** \\ \hline Female & 248 & 46\% \\ \hline Male & 302 & 54\% \\ \hline Total & 550 & 100\% \\ \hline \end{tabular}
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Table 1: Distribution of the number and ratio of the patients’ gender. Figure 1: (**a**) Vertical and horizontal impaction; (**b**) Mesioangular and discoangular impaction. Among all of the 1752 third molars included in this study, 716 (40%) of them erupted, while 1036 (60%) were impacted third molar teeth. The rest of the third molars were congenitally missing or already extracted and were not seen in panoramic radiographs. Impacted teeth were divided into two groups. The first group consisted of 487 (47%) partially impacted third molars, and the second group consisted of completely impacted 549 (53%) third molar teeth. Partially and completely impacted mandibular third molars displayed a significant difference between the left and right sides (\(p<0.05\)), whereas partially and completely impacted maxillary third molars did not display a significant difference between the left and right sides (\(p>0.05\)). Data analysis showed that third molars had approximately the same rate of occurrence in the mandible and maxilla (932 and 820 molars). The left side of the mandible had a greater number of impactions than the right side in our study group (Table 3). The distribution of erupted, partially impacted, and completely impacted third molars according to gender is shown in Table 4. There was no statistically significant difference between genders according to the maxillary and mandibular right and left sides (\(p>0.05\)) (Table 4). The patients' data showed that 383 (21%) teeth were associated with the following pathologies: pericoronitis, caries, periodontitis, abscess or cysts, caries on the second molar, \begin{table}
\begin{tabular}{c c c} \hline \hline  & **Number of Third Molars (\(n\))** & \(p\)**-Value** \\ \hline
**Side and Location** & **Female** & **Male** & \\ \hline Maxilla right & 172 & 241 & \(p>0.05\) \\ \hline Maxilla left & 172 & 235 & \\ \hline Mandible right & 193 & 270 & \(p>0.05\) \\ \hline Mandible left & 203 & 266 & \\ \hline Total & 740 & 1012 & \\ \hline \hline \end{tabular}
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Table 4: Distribution of erupted, partially impacted, and completely impacted third molars according to gender. There is no significant difference between males and females (\(p>0.05\)). \begin{table}
\begin{tabular}{c c c c c c c} \hline \hline  & \multicolumn{6}{c}{**Age Group (Years)**} \\ \cline{2-7}
**Gender** & **16–19** & **20–29** & **30–39** & **40–49** & **50–59** & **60–65** & **Total** \\ \hline FEMALE third molar number & 110 & 389 & 125 & 83 & 23 & 10 & 740 \\ \hline MALE third molar number & 74 & 661 & 175 & 63 & 20 & 19 & 1012 \\ \hline TOTAL third molar number & 184 & 1050 & 300 & 146 & 43 & 29 & 1752 \\ \hline \hline \end{tabular}
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Table 2: Age and gender distribution of patients with third molar numbers.