The “Hopeless” Case

A . Meyrier ) A hopeless case ?

End-stage renal failure in an octogenarian with advanced congestive heart failure is a daunting challenge for the physician. Many of these patients cannot tolerate haemodialysis, due to severely impaired left-ventricular function, valvular disease or both. In such patients, peritoneal dialysis may be the only feasible option but home therapy is often impossible, due to age, comorbidity and lack...

A Hope for a Hopeless Tooth: A Case Report

Vertical root fracture(VRF) is one of the common reasons for extraction of endodontically treated teeth. Though many options of saving such teeth were available, they were not of much success. Therefore the objective of this article is to discuss one such case. A 50 year old male patient reported with Vertical root fracture and 15 mm of periodontal probing depth in the distal aspect of 14. Radi...

Management of a Hopeless Mandibular Molar: A Case Report

Intentional tooth reimplantation can be an alternative treatment option for teeth with poor or hopeless prognosis where coronal and surgical endodontic treatment(s) are not possible. This technique may help to restore a natural tooth to function in preference to prosthesis/implant replacements. A 38-years old male was referred to private practice with persistent chronic apical periodontitis of ...

Splendid but Hopeless

the city centre, Gradually however the crowd thinned slightly, the driver put his foot down and after a certain amount of stuttering and coughing, the ailing vehicle slowly built up speed. Thereafter the driver's technique for dealing with any obstacle was to blow his horn and accelerate towards it. Miraculously the obstacle would melt away at the very last moment, or if it didn't, we simply sw...

Carcinoma of the cervix - the hopeless disease.