Endodontics is the branch of dentistry concerned with the dental pulp and the periradicular tissues surrounding the tooth root, encompassing the diagnosis and treatment of pulpal inflammation, infection, and injury. Its central procedure, root canal treatment, removes diseased or necrotic pulp, then shapes, disinfec…
Endodontics is the branch of dentistry concerned with the dental pulp and the periradicular tissues surrounding the tooth root, encompassing the diagnosis and treatment of pulpal inflammation, infection, and injury. Its central procedure, root canal treatment, removes diseased or necrotic pulp, then shapes, disinfects, and obturates the canal system to retain a tooth that would otherwise be lost to caries, trauma, or periapical pathology. Endodontic practice depends on detailed knowledge of root canal anatomy, microbiology of the infected canal, and the periapical lesions that develop when bacterial products reach the surrounding bone; such lesions may also arise in association with systemic conditions affecting mineral metabolism, including hypophosphataemic rickets. Beyond non-surgical therapy, the discipline includes surgical endodontics such as apicoectomy and root resection, management of procedural complications, and the retrieval of separated instruments, which can occasionally impinge on adjacent structures like the inferior alveolar nerve and produce paraesthesia. It intersects with restorative dentistry, implantology, and tooth autotransplantation when teeth cannot be preserved. Research spans instrumentation and irrigation techniques, biomaterials for obturation and repair, diagnostic imaging, outcomes of conservative versus surgical intervention, and case-based study of unusual presentations and treatment challenges.
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