The essential steps for successful endodontic treatment consist of elimination of all diseased pulp and dentin tissues, adequate chemomechanical preparation and filling of the root canal system hermetically.[1] Moreover, it is crucial that root canal obturation has to be limited within root canal system. Minor apical foramen or minor apical constriction is known to be situated 0.5–1.5 mm corona...

Avulsion and intrusive luxation are two severe and complicated types of dental trauma. Combination of these two types of injury is rare in the literature because they vary in terms of underlying mechanism of occurrence. This case report describes the management of an unusual traumatic injury of two permanent maxillary central incisors with avulsion and intrusive luxation concomitantly. The pati...

Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, Sharavathi Dental College and Hospital, Shimoga, Karnataka, India Department of Periodontics, K.M. Shah Dental College and Hospital, Sumandeep Vidyapeeth, Vadodara, Gujarat, India Department of Oral Medicine & Radiology, Sharavathi Dental College and Hospital, Shimoga, Karnataka, India Department of Conservative and Endodontics, K.M Shah Dental Colleg...

Subcutaneous emphysema is a well-known and recognized complication in oral surgery, due to high pressure rotating instrument use, mostly related impacted tooth surgery. Although root canal treatment endodontic therapy considered as safe standard procedure, affected by low incidence of complication, subcutaneous the choice mechanical tools or consequence use air stream dry operating field should...

INTRODUCTION Procedural accidents have a negative effect on healing and might contribute to the persistence of infections in inaccessible apical areas, requiring surgical intervention. This report describes a case of persistent apical periodontitis of a lower left first molar associated with the sinus tract and a periapical lesion that required nonsurgical endodontic retreatment and apical surg...

The cementodentinal tear is rarely detected by noninvasive procedures owing to its clinical picture simulating a root fracture or a periodontal or endodontic lesion. We present a case of complex cementodentinal tears in a 79-year-old woman who presented a repeated swelling at the labial mucosa of the left maxillary central incisor for 6 months. Periapical radiographs demonstrated a vertical rad...

Authors Dr. Priya R, Dr. Sapna C. M. , Dr. Rakesh R. Rajan Dept. of Conservative Dentistry & Endodontics, Amrita School of Dentistry, Kerala, India Corresponding Author Dr. Priya R Dept. of Conservative Dentistry & Endodontics, Amrita School of Dentistry AIMS Ponekkara P. O., Kochi, Kerala, India – 682041 Email: [email protected] ORCID: 0000-0002-2825-5131 Abstract As with every aspect of ...