Background and Aims: The aims of this article were to assess the current endodontic practice in Turkey and to find out the opinions of practitioners on their level of practice and training needs. Subjects and Methods: A questionnaire dealing with current endodontic practice was prepared. A total of 650 practitioners from Turkey were randomly chosen and the questionnaires were sent to their e-ma...

This study evaluated the microbiota of root canals undergoing retreatment. The most prevalent taxa detected by checkerboard included Propionibacterium species, Fusobacterium nucleatum, streptococci, and Pseudoramibacter alactolyticus. Quantitative real-time PCR detected Enterococcus faecalis and streptococci in 38% and 41% of the cases, comprising 9.76% and 65.78% of the total bacterial counts,...

CASE REPORTS The problem of thermal sensitivity following non-surgical root-canal treatment is explored and case reports are presented. Possible causes for post-treatment discomfort from endodontic and restorative aetiologies are discussed, as are the mechanisms to explain the patients' painful experiences. Treatment of this problem may vary from the simple replacement of a defective restoratio...

This report describes a rare palato-radicular groove in a maxillary lateral incisor with an accessory root and an atypical root canal. Failure to identify the presence of the palatal groove allowed infection to persist, which led to palatal swelling and labial fistula. During endodontic retreatment of the infected root canal, an accessory root with a second root canal was detected. Owing to the...

introduction: the aim of the present in vitro study was to evaluate the efficacy of d-race, protaper retreatment kit and hand h-files in removal of obturating materials (om) from the curved root canals using cone-beam computed tomography (cbct). materials and methods: sixty extracted molars were prepared and obturated. the samples were divided into three groups ( n =20). in each group the om wa...