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Background: The impacted maxillary canine is commonly encountered problem for a dentist and sometimes it is challenging to manage. The aetiology of the buccally impacted canine is always thought to be tooth size arch length discrepancy whereas the aetiology of palatally impacted canine is already found to be multifactorial. There is distinct type of buccally impacted canine which occurs without any apparent space deficiency. We suspect that this kind of impaction does not share the similar aetiology with the commonly found buccal impaction.

Aim and objective: The aim of our study was to find the association between buccally impacted maxillary canine with minimum crowding and other teeth anomalies and as well as compare the transalveolar maxillary arch width of buccally impacted canine samples with that of normally erupted canine samples.

Materials and methods: Total 33 patients having buccally impacted maxillary canine with crowding less than 2 mm were assigned into the experimental group (EG) and 32 randomly selected patients with normally erupted canines were assigned into the control group (CG). The anomalous teeth were searched in both the EG and CG. The transalveolar maxillary arch width was measured at fisrt premolar and fisrt molar level. The data were analysed by pearson’s chi square test and independent t test to find the statistical significance by using SPSS16.0 software.

Result: The pearson’s chi square test showed the statistically significant association between buccally impacted maxillary canine with minimum crowding and other tooth anomalies. The comparison of transalveolar maxillary arch width between EG and CG did not show any statistical significance.

Conclusion: The buccally impacted maxillary canine with minimum crowding is associated with other teeth anomalies and the transalveolar maxillary arch width is not deficient.

Buccally impacted canine, Minimum crowding, Maxillary arch width, Teeth anomalies.