The Endodontics is the treatment of root canals.
This corresponds to any therapy that is practiced in the dentin-pulp complex of a tooth..
It is also the recognized dental specialty since 1963 by the American Dental Association.
Endodontic therapy could be said to range from direct or indirect pulp protection to total removal of the dental pulp.
Applies to fractured teeth, with deep or injured cavities in your pulp tissue (loose connective tissue) in which there is a characteristic symptomatology. La pulpitis (classification of pulp lesions) and the study of Periapical Pathology.
This injury can be reversible, with endodontic pulp protection maneuvers the pulp inflammatory process can be reversed.
Or irreversible when the only therapeutic option is the total removal of the dental pulp and the three-dimensional filling of the dental canal..
Total biopulpectomies are also performed on teeth for prosthetic purposes..
Endodontics is the therapy in different situations of Dental Traumatology.
The process of performing a root canal is usually as follows:
- Clean the root canal system: bacteria, necrotic tissue, etc. in order to make the canal as aseptic as possible. It will never be totally sterile, only the main canal of each root is treated and not the numerous canals inaccessible to biomechanical instrumentation but accessible to irrigating substances of the root canal in medicinal form.
- Obturation of the three-dimensional root canal with appropriate shape and size: conical shape of the crown is given to the apex of the tooth. An occlusal stop is created to fit just the working length, this is that the padding is adjusted to the length of the root and, by last, the original morphology of the canal must be respected.
- Achieve sealing of the apical third and the rest of the canal.
- Achieve a biological closure at the histological level.
