Root perforations are an undesired complication of endodontic treatment which result in loss of integrity of the root, and adversely affect the prognosis of the treatment. Recently, Iranian mineral trioxide aggregate [Root MTA] has been introduced as an ideal material for perforation repair. In this article a successful repair of strip root perforation of mandibular molar using Root MTA is pres...

Considering several reports about the similarity between the chemical compositions of the mineral trioxide aggregate (MTA) and Portland cement (PC), the subject of this investigation was to analyze the behavior of dog dental pulp after pulpotomy and direct pulp protection with these materials. After pulpotomy, the pulp stumps of 26 roots of dog teeth were protected with MTA or PC. Sixty days af...

introduction : the aim of this quantitative systematic review/meta-analysis was to compare the treatment outcomes of mineral trioxide aggregate (mta) and calcium hydroxide (ch) in pulpotomy of human primary molars. the focused pico question was “in case of pulp exposure in vital primary molars, how does mta pulpotomy compare to ch in terms of clinical/radiographic success?” methods and material...

objective: one of the principle purposes of root canal obturation is to obtain hermetic sealing of the root canal system. according to the development of technology, many materials are now used in root canal filling. an in vitro dye leakage study was performed to evaluate the apical sealability of white-colored mineral trioxide aggregate (wmta) and gray-colored portland cement (gpc) when used a...

This case report presents conservative management of unset mineral trioxide aggregate (MTA) after being placed as a root-end filling material following periapical surgery. Periapical surgery was indicated for a maxillary lateral incisor of a 15-year-old male due to persistent exudate and a large periapical lesion. During surgery Angelus MTA was placed as root-end filling. The next session it wa...

background: the purpose of this study was to compare the push-out bond strength of mineral trioxide aggregate (mta) and calcium enriched mixture (cem) as root end fi lling materials. materials and methods: a total of 40 root dentin slices (1 ± 0.2 mm) were prepared from freshly extracted human maxillary central teeth and their lumens were enlarged to 1.3 mm. the slices were randomly divided int...

INTRODUCTION The aim of the present investigation was to compare the efficacy of mineral trioxide aggregate (MTA) and 0.2% chlorhexidine (CHX) mixture to pure MTA, as a pulp capping material. METHODS AND MATERIALS The pulp of 24 lateral incisors and canines from four dogs were exposed and capped either with MTA or MTA+0.2% CHX. After 2 months the animals were sacrificed and the teeth were pre...