background: during root canal treatment procedures, unexpected accidents may be confronted affecting long-term prognosis just as in any other dental treatment. the purpose of this study was to evaluate the knowledge of dental students of accidents and errors during endodontic treatment in medical university of babol. materials and methods: in this cross-sectional study, 52 senior dental student...

Background: During root canal treatment procedures, unexpected accidents may be confronted affecting long-term prognosis just as in any other dental treatment. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the knowledge of dental students of accidents and errors during endodontic treatment in Medical University of Babol. Materials and Methods: In this cross-sectional study, 52 senior dental student...

Root canal treatment usually fails when treatment falls short of acceptable standards. The reason many teeth do not respond to root canal treatment is because of procedural errors that prevent the control and prevention of intracanal endodontic infection. In truth, a procedural accident often impedes or makes it impossible to accomplish appropriate intracanal procedures. Thus, there is potentia...

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...

Root canal stripping is defined as an oblong, vertical perforation that appears especially in the middle section of curved root canals during endodontic treatments with nickel-titanium (Ni-Ti) instruments. Its occurrence may drastically affect the outcome of the treatment, transforming a common otherwise efficient endodontic procedure into a complication such as tooth extraction. In order to di...

This atypical case report describes the accidental swallowing of a hypodermic needle by a patient during root canal treatment. The needle was safely removed by gastrointestinal endoscopy after 24 hours, but the incident emphasizes the need for rubber dam placement and proper vigilance during all endodontic and restorative procedures to prevent such events, which can be life-threatening or fatal...

Calcium hydroxide, widely used in endodontic treatment, is a strong base that may cause irreversible injury to vital tissue that comes into contact with this substance. We present the first case of a dentist who accidentally splashed endodontic calcium hydroxide into her own eye. After washing with copious amounts of water for several minutes, she was treated in the hospital within 30 minutes o...

Introduction: Post-traumatic non-vital teeth is one of the indications for One Visit Endodontic. Trauma to may arise from conditions that cause become necrotic so will look darker and experience discoloration. Clinical indicate death dental pulp require endodontic treatment. This situation discoloration occur as a result metamorphosis calcified pulp. Internal whitening treatment can be done aft...

A female patient was seen for an emergency visit after accidental citric acid (40%) injection into soft tissues during root canal irrigation. The patient was experiencing pain, swelling in the right mandible, paraesthesia of the right lower lip and regional necrosis of the buccal mucosa. She was reassured and given analgesics and antibiotics. Follow-up visits were scheduled to monitor the case....

A 16-year-old female presented with the chief concern of esthetic deficiency caused by a missing tooth (Fig. 1A). She had lost her maxillary right central incisor in a cycling accident nine years previously. The tooth, which had been avulsed during the accident, was reimplanted and subjected to endodontic therapy several days later, but was lost again in a second traumatic avulsion after a few ...