The aim of the study was to evaluate the effect of low level laser application on postoperative pain after endodontic surgery in a double blind, randomized clinical study. Fifty-two healthy adults undergoing endodontic surgery were included into the study. Subsequently to suturing, 26 patients had the operation site treated with an 809 nm-GaAlAs-laser (oralaser voxx, Oralia GmbH, Konstanz, Germ...

 Introduction: Inhibiting the pain which affects both the patients and dentists is an important factor during treating dental patients. The aim of this study was to assess the analgesic effect of two medications ibuprofen and gabapentin on the post-endodontic-therapy pain. Methods: Forty patients who need root canal therapy with Visual Analog Scale (VAS)>40, participated in this double-...

Reconstruction of hard dental tissue after endodontic treatment is a difficult and important duty of the dentist. According to the general opinion, endodontically treated teeth are inferior in quality, more brittle, predisposed to fractures and cracking. Logically, such teeth require reconstruction to prevent fractures, cracks, and bacterial microleakage leading to reinfection. The procedure of...

Objective: To compare the effectiveness of 2.5% sodium hypochlorite and 2% chlorhexidine, in reduction frequency pain 24 hours after endodontic treatment teeth with chronic apical periodontitis Study design Setting: Randomized Clinical Trial conducted –removed for blind review--from July 2018 to December 2018. Methodology: A total 60 patients requiring management pulp necrosis were randomly all...

background: severe abdominal pain is not common after laparoscopic surgeries, but acute or chronic pain after operation is considerable in some patients. post-operative pain control after laparoscopic surgeries, is conventionally achieved using analgesics such as non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (nsaids) and narcotics, but their administration has a lot of side effects. this study compares...

INTRODUCTION Porphyromonas gingivalis and Tannerella forsythia are anaerobic bacteria commonly involved in root canal infections. Although previous investigations have assessed these species by strictly qualitative approaches, accurate determination of their cell levels by a sensitive quantitative technique may contribute with additional information regarding relevance in pain of endodontic ori...

Bisphosphonates are commonly used in medicine to maintain bone density in patients with certain nonneoplastic diseases or cancers. A serious adverse effect of bisphosphonates that has substantial dental significance is osteonecrosis that appears to uniquely affect the mandible and maxilla without occurring in other bones of the skeleton. Patients with bisphosphonate associated osteonecrosis of ...

The best plan for success is to begin with the end in mind. It generally is agreed that the successful treatment of a badly broken down tooth with pulpal disease depends not only good endodontic therapy, but also on good prosthetic reconstruction of the tooth after endodontic therapy. The primary purpose of the post is to retain a core that can be used to retain definitive prostheses. A post an...