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Root canal procedure: unhealthy or injured tooth, subsequent creation of an access cavity with a dental handpiece, cleaning and shaping the root canals with an endodontic file, and restoration with gutta-percha filling and a crown. Removing infected pulp during a root canal procedure. Root canal treatment (also known as endodontic therapy ...
Healing of periapical lesions. Apical periodontitis is typically the body's defense response to the threat of microbial invasion from the root canal. [1] Primary among the members of the host defense mechanism is the polymorphonuclear leukocyte, otherwise known as the neutrophil. The task of the neutrophil is to locate and destroy microbes that ...
Specialty. Dentistry. Dens evaginatus is a rare odontogenic developmental anomaly that is found in teeth where the outer surface appears to form an extra bump or cusp. Premolars are more likely to be affected than any other tooth. [3] It could occur unilaterally or bilaterally. [1]
Periapical periodontitis may develop into a periapical abscess, where a collection of pus forms at the end of the root, the consequence of spread of infection from the tooth pulp (odontogenic infection), or into a periapical cyst, where an epithelial lined, fluid-filled structure forms. Etymologically, the name refers to inflammation (Latin ...
Post and core. A post and core crown is a type of dental restoration required where there is an inadequate amount of sound tooth tissue remaining to retain a conventional crown. A post is cemented into a prepared root canal, which retains a core restoration, which retains the final crown. [1][2]
55674. Anatomical terminology. [edit on Wikidata] A root canal is the naturally occurring anatomic space within the root of a tooth. It consists of the pulp chamber (within the coronal part of the tooth), the main canal (s), and more intricate anatomical branches that may connect the root canals to each other or to the surface of the root.
Temporary crown. A temporary crown (white) on a tooth after endodontic therapy. A temporary crown (provisional crown, interim crown) is a temporary (short-term) crown used in dentistry. Like other interim restorations, it serves until a final (definitive) restoration can be inserted. Usually the temporary crown is constructed from acrylic ...
Regenerative endodontics is the extension of root canal therapy. Conventional root canal therapy cleans and fills the pulp chamber with biologically inert material after destruction of the pulp due to dental caries, congenital deformity or trauma. Regenerative endodontics instead seeks to replace live tissue in the pulp chamber.