Twenty years ago, amalgam was used as a direct restorative material to restore cracked teeth [16]. Davis and Overton [16] followed 40 cracked teeth restored with amalgam, adhesively bonded, or mechanically retained. After one year, chewing pain was eliminated in all but one tooth in the non...
Every year, more than 15 million patients in the United States[5]undergoroot canal therapy(RCT); this is the most traditional treatment dental practitioners perform to relieve pulp-deriveddental pain. Of note, RCT consists of carefully removing the pulp tissue inside the tooth, followed by clean...
1b Root-treatment completed through the crown without serious damage A more realistic estimation may be in the order of 4–8% in the 10 years following active treatment.10–13 This estimation does, however, assume that efforts were made to identify and manage all obvious pulpal pathosis ...
While some people never have any problems with their wisdom teeth and can keep them healthy for life, others may find that their wisdom teeth start to crowd or damage other teeth, cause pain or infections, or come in at an awkward angle. In these cases, it’s often best to have them ...
Pulpal status is often difficult to establish as sensitivity testing is not always reliable and can produce false-negative and false-positive results. Thermal sensitivity testing using heat or cold is useful as pain from an injured pulp is often triggered or relieved by sudden temperature changes....
The survival of zirconia based crowns (Lava) in the management of severe anterior tooth wear up to 7 years follow up. Oral Biol Dent 2014; 2: 1–7. Article Google Scholar Magne P, Magne M, Bleser U . Adhesive restorations, centric relation, and the Dahl principal: minimally invasive ...
If you can heal and prevent a tooth infection, then why does the tooth root need to be removed when the body can perform its own cleaning and repair, under the right conditions. Learn about different forms of tooth pain and their meanings. ...
The patient was in a lot of dental pain. 1) Pre-op x-ray. 2) Tooth #31 had a temporary dental filling in it. 3) – 4) After removal of the dental crown of #32 showing the residual empty tooth socket. 5) – 6) Next a minimal gum flap is reflected to show exposure of the ...
The presence of asupernumerary toothcan lead to potential complications, such as crowding of the teeth; noneruption or delayed eruption of the adjacent teeth; displacement of teeth; midlinediastema; delayed exfoliation ofprimary teeth; cyst formation; paresthesia and/or pain due to a supernumerary ...
The medical agent comprises at least an active ingredient that has one of the following effects when applied in the tooth cavity: therapy, treatment, healing, curative, remedial, restorative, tonic, reparative, corrective, antibiotic, anesthetic, disinfect, anti-inflammatory, pain relief. In this re...