Rotary Endodontics in Primary Teeth - A Review

Overview

Journal Saudi Dent J

Specialty Dentistry

Date 2016 Jan 22

PMID 26792964

Citations 28

Authors

Sageena George

S Anandaraj

Jyoti S Issac

Sheen A John

Anoop Harris

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Abstract

Endodontic treatment in primary teeth can be challenging and time consuming, especially during canal preparation, which is considered one of the most important steps in root canal therapy. The conventional instrumentation technique for primary teeth remains the "gold-standard" over hand instrumentation, which makes procedures much more time consuming and adversely affects both clinicians and patients. Recently nickel-titanium (Ni-Ti) rotary files have been developed for use in pediatric endodontics. Using rotary instruments for primary tooth pulpectomies is cost effective and results in fills that are consistently uniform and predictable. This article reviews the use of nickel-titanium rotary files as root canal instrumentation in primary teeth. The pulpectomy technique is described here according to different authors and the advantages and disadvantages of using rotary files are discussed.

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