Endodontic treatment of immature necrotic teeth is a real challenge. Recently, a biologically based treatment strategy, referred to as regeneration, has been introduced. Tissue regeneration requires the presence of stems cells, a scaffold, and growth factors. Endodontic regeneration may improve the prognosis of immature necrotic teeth by re-establishing the functional pulpal tissue and further ...

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...

In Letterer-Siwe disease, oral and dental pathology is an unusual occurrence. Failure to consider this condition in patients with gingival inflammation, necrosis, or premature eruption of teeth may lead to delay in diagnosis. We present two cases with these features. Case Reports Case 1. This boy was aged 4 months when he developed sore, swollen gums with white necrotic areas. He was treated fo...

abstract: antibiotics are a valuable addition to health practitioners for the management of bacterial infections. during endodontic treatment and when managing trauma to the teeth, antibiotics may be applied systemically or locally. due to the potential risk of adverse effects of systemic applications, and the ineffectiveness of systemic prescribed antibiotics in necrotic or pulpless teeth and ...

INTRODUCTION This article reviews and reports on the histopathologic and histobacteriologic status of the tissue in lateral canals and apical ramifications (LC/AR) in diverse clinical conditions as well as in response to endodontic treatment. METHODS In total, serial sections from 493 human tooth specimens obtained by extraction or apical surgery were screened for the presence of LC/AR. RES...

Caries is the most common cause of pulp-periapical disease. When the pulp tissue involved in caries becomes irreversibly inflamed and progresses to necrosis, the treatment option is root canal therapy because the infected or non-infected necrotic pulp tissue in the root canal system is not accessible to the host's innate and adaptive immune defense mechanisms and antimicrobial agents. Therefore...

trauma to primary teeth can lead to devastating sequels in development of permanent successors. the disturbance may range from enamel hypoplasia and/or hypo-calcification to arrest of dental bud development. crown dilaceration of permanent teeth is one of the consequences of trauma to deciduous teeth mainly due to intrusion or avulsion. this report presents a mandibular central incisor with dil...

INTRODUCTION Endodontic treatment of immature necrotic teeth is challenging. Recently a biologically based treatment called regenerative endodontic treatment was introduced. Although regenerative endodontic treatment causes root development, there are several drawbacks and unfavorable outcomes that should be addressed. This article describes regenerative endodontic treatment of 2 maxillary cent...

Rmoval of abscessed primary teeth has been sug;ested because they have been shown in some tudies to create developmental defects with underlying permanent successors.' However there might be a rationale for attempting pulp therapy in some carefully selected cases, i.e., abscessed incisor prior to eruption of primary cuspids, as space closure may occur. In necrotic immature teeth, the wide and f...