A 41-year-old male with a dental history of invasive cervical resorption (ICR) was initially treated surgical endodontics approach and secondly antimicrobial photodynamic therapy (aPDT) along endodontic retreatment. The use aPDT essential to promote bacterial reduction in the defect. Combining these techniques allowed for clinical, radiographic, tomographic success after five years follow-up.

Long-term success of endodontic treatment is dependent on adequate and appropriate cleaning and shaping of the root canal along with proper and correct obturation of the entire prepared space. This article aims to report an exceptional non-surgical and orthograde endodontic treatment of maxillary right central incisor with an extensive radiolucent lesion in a 17-year-old male. Six and 20-month ...

Currently, although ultrasonics (US) is used in dentistry for therapeutic and diagnostic applications as well as for cleaning of instruments before sterilization, its main use is for scaling and root planing of teeth and in root canal therapy, both for orthograde and retrograde therapy. Both in conventional and surgical treatments, US in endodontics has enhanced quality of clinical procedures a...

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 presence of a foreign body in the periapical tissues can cause endodontic failure by triggering an inflammatory response and a subsequent foreign body reaction. This inflammatory response, which can occur to varying degrees, appears radiographically as a radiolucency that can remain asymptomatic for many years. A foreign object can reach the apical region by accident or iatrogenic procedure...

Preservation of a patient’s natural dentition remains an important outcome in securing oral health. Dentists and patients are facing a perplexity between saving a compromised tooth through endodontic treatment, retreatment or extraction. Though success rates of endodontic initial treatment have been improving over the years, persistence of periapical disease is far from being a rare condition. ...

Clinicians are frequently facing the dilemma of weather to perform endodontic treatment in order to retain a necrotic tooth or to extract and replace it with a dental implant. According to recent reviews, the long-term survival rates of sound or even compromised teeth surpassed those of oral implants [1, 2]. During the last decade, the endodontic therapy improved continuously due to modern equi...

This case report describes the surgical removal of cementoblastoma associated with apicoectomy and endodontic therapy. The patient, an 18-year-old man, presented pain in the region of the mandibular body on the right side. On clinical exam, bone expansion was observed in the region at the bottom of the vestibular sulcus, pain on palpation, slight extrusion of tooth 46 with presence of pulp vita...

Pulpal and periradicular pathology is the common sequel following trauma to teeth severe enough cause displacement of tooth resulting in necrosis pulp as a result severing neurovascular supply near apical constriction. This case report evidenced conservative non-surgical endodontic management large periapical lesion 19-year-old young male induced due traumatic injury face.

Before initiating any endodontic therapy, probability of extra canals should be considered. The Incidence of three canals in mandibular second premolar has been reported to be 0.46-0.5%. The present report describes nonsurgical endodontic treatment of three mandibular second premolars with three canals. In these cases, three orifices were located in mesiobuccal, distobuccal and lingual. Mesiobu...