Illuminating strategies to negotiate calcified root canals

Investigators have examined the methods that may be effective at negotiating root canal calcification, according to a study published in the Journal of Clinical Medicine.

Tooth wear, operative procedures, vital pulp treatment and regenerative endodontic procedures may encourage the formation of hard tissue in the pulp canal space. However, dental trauma, autotransplantation and orthodontic treatment can accelerate this deposition and cause narrowing or closure of the root canal.

Although conventional endodontic therapy may be challenging and increase the risk of procedural issues, the investigators outlined specialized instruments and dedicated negotiation concepts that have been developed to help clinicians. They noted that conventional techniques, operating microscopes with coaxial illumination, magnification and stereoscopic depth perception and high-resolution cone-beam computed tomography can all be used to negotiate to the apical third of calcified root canals.

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