Association Between Mandibular Third Molar Position and Recurrent Pericoronitis: Protocol for a Cross-Sectional Study
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Abstract
BACKGROUND: Pericoronitis is a common pathological condition associated with mandibular third molars that may cause pain and discomfort. This condition may be chronic, exhibiting episodic symptoms that last for a few days to weeks and recurring multiple times in less than a year. The operculum covering the erupting mandibular third molars may become obscured by the eruption of maxillary third molars. Such recurrent traumas might exacerbate the symptoms and lead to ulcerations. With clinical monitoring at regular intervals and with the help of radiographic examinations, clinicians can develop the most effective treatment plan. OBJECTIVE: This study aims to determine the association between mandibular third molar position and recurrent pericoronitis. METHODS: This cross-sectional study will include 200 patients having partially impacted mandibular third molar with recurrent pericoronitis. Patients aged 18-40 years with occurrence of pericoronitis will be included in this study. The impacted tooth's side and the symptoms associated with pericoronitis will be recorded during clinical examination. All these patients will be evaluated using panoramic radiographs to assess the position of the unerupted/impacted mandibular third molar. RESULTS: The duration of this study will be 6 months from October 2025 to April 2026. Approval for this study has been granted by the institutional ethics committee of Datta Meghe Institute of Higher Education and Research (deemed to be university), Sawangi, Wardha (DMIHER (DU)/IEC/2024/53). In panoramic radiographs, the impaction status of the mandibular third molar will be evaluated based on Winter's and Pell and Gregory classification systems. Patients' data will be recorded and analyzed for statistical significance. CONCLUSIONS: The detection of the position and intervention at the early stage for pericoronitis in individuals with impacted third molars is vital. INTERNATIONAL REGISTERED REPORT IDENTIFIER (IRRID): PRR1-10.2196/72682.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.014 | 0.007 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.036 | 0.007 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".