PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to suggest an alternative technique for atraumatic teeth extraction that would prevent bone exposure and the associated complication of osteonecrosis of the jaws in bisphosphonate (BP)-treated patients, without terminating the treatment. PATIENTS AND METHODS A total of 10 patients treated with BPs for multiple myeloma, metastatic breast cancer, and osteop...

CASE REPORTS The problem of thermal sensitivity following non-surgical root-canal treatment is explored and case reports are presented. Possible causes for post-treatment discomfort from endodontic and restorative aetiologies are discussed, as are the mechanisms to explain the patients' painful experiences. Treatment of this problem may vary from the simple replacement of a defective restoratio...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to determine the probable side effects of electrosurgery in pulpectomy of deciduous teeth on succedaneous teeth in dogs. MATERIALS AND METHODS In this animal study, all maxillary and mandibular teeth at one side of five puppies' mouths were treated employing electrosurgical pulpectomy and were then compared with those of the other side treated using the co...

Aim. To compare the periapical status of endodontically treated teeth between Austrian and Croatian adult patients and determine its relation to age, sex, position of teeth, and length of root canal filling. Methods. The study was conducted from 2007 to 2009 at two university dental clinics and included 163 Croatian (412 teeth) and 101 Austrian (430 teeth) patients. We assessed the periapical s...

T echniques to reinforce endodontically treated teeth have been available for more than 100 years. However, few dentists have questioned the rationale that dictates automatic dowel reinforcement and coronal coverage of pulpless teeth. The difficulties of in vivo studies have motivated investigators to increase the number of in vitro studies of endodontically treated teeth. Although findings fro...

STATEMENT OF PROBLEM Crowns have been considered the restoration of choice for endodontically treated teeth, but their selection has been based primarily on anecdotal evidence. PURPOSE This study tested the hypothesis that crown placement (coronal coverage) is associated with improved survival of endodontically treated teeth when preaccess, endodontic, and restorative factors are controlled. ...

a s p i bstract he purpose of this study was to evaluate, radiographcally, whether there is similarity in the apical root esorption found in endodontically treated teeth and ntreated teeth when they are submitted to orthodontic reatment. From 2,500 treatment records examined, 16 atients were selected who had a maxillary central ncisor treated endodontically before initiation of the rthodontic m...

The present investigation was undertaken to clinically and radiograplu’caily observe human p~mary teeth after pulpotomy using one-fifth dilution of formocresol. Seventyseven teeth of 59 ctuTdren, average age seven years, were treated. Seventy teeth were available for follow-up over a peHod varying from 4 to 36 months. The degree of root resorption was evaiuated comparing pairs of treated and ho...