It’s official: Credentialing and affiliation between Advocate Sherman Hospital and Renovo Endodontic Studio is complete! […]
Hospital Affiliation
ZOMBIE TOOTH
ZOMBIE TOOTH: Ok we haven’t posted for a little while, but we wanted to make sure that it would be something interesting for our audience to look at. We affectionately call this one the “zombie tooth”. Why? Not only does this tooth exhibit a developmental anomaly affecting the anatomy of the tooth, but it is half dead and half alive! Half of this tooth got infected while the other tooth remained vital and normal. Question for our dental friends…did we do the right thing by treating ONLY the infected half of the tooth, or should be have treated the entire […]
Dental Trauma
Dental Dental trauma: Here is an unfortunate case of facial trauma with nerve exposure. Because the tooth was slightly underdeveloped, we made the decision to preserve healthy pulp tissue to encouraged continued development and root wall thickening. This will ultimately result in a better long term prognosis. The restorative aspect of treatment was done quite well here as well! […]
Dental Anatomy and Root Canals 3
Dental anatomy and Dental anatomy and Root Canals: Check this out! Here is another case with 2 palatal canals! Although this one is within 1 root. Pretty cool nonetheless! […]
Dental Anatomy and Root Canals
Dental Anatomy and Root Canals 2
Dental anatomy and Root Canals:This is a very interesting case in which there are 2 completely separate palatal roots. Don’t see these often at all. Someone had mentioned that the 2 roots look like Pikachu’s ears? See it? […]
Dental Anatomy and Root Canals
Dental Anatomy and Root Canals
Dental anatomy 3
Maybe this tooth developed during an earthquake! In any case, maintaining original curvature in root canal therapy is the key to success here! […]
Dental Anatomy 2
Dental anatomy can be tricky sometimes…once again proving that assisted magnification in the form of the dental operating microscope and sometimes the CBCT scan can be immensely helpful. […]
Managing adverse outcomes…
Here is an interesting case of iatrogenic error. A hole was made inadvertently in the root; this is called a perforation (red arrows). This was confirmed with CT scan. Although we would have loved to save this tooth as this was our preference, this patient opted for extraction and immediate dental implant placement. […]
Minimally Invasive Endodontics
The purpose of root canal treatment is to remove all irritants (bacteria) from within the tooth. It is ideal to achieve this while removing as little internal tooth structure as possible. Here is a very good example of this. […]
