Healing of Periapical Lesions After Surgical Endodontic Retreatment: A Systematic Review

Overview

Journal Cureus

Specialty Biomedical Engineering

Date 2020 Mar 20

PMID 32190471

Citations 18

Authors

Faisal AlGhamdi

Abdulrahaman J Alhaddad

Samar Abuzinadah

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Abstract

Background: Surgical root canal retreatment is required when peri-radicular pathosis associated with endodontically treated teeth cannot be treated by non-surgical root canal therapy (retreatment), or when retreatment was ineffective, not feasible or contraindicated. Endodontic failures maybe happen when irritants remain within the confines of the root canal, or when an extra-radicular infection cannot be eradicated by orthograde root canal treatment. Following enhanced microsurgical techniques in the last years, the success rates of surgical root canal retreatment have improved considerably.

Objective: The aim of this systematic review is to gather updated data in regard to the surgical root canal (retrograde) retreatment to heal the periapical lesions.

Materials And Methods: The electronic databases PubMed and Google Scholar were searched in this review using specific inclusion and exclusion criteria. The search was performed in June 2019 and updated in November 2019. Among 3900 studies, 10 studies satisfied the eligibility criteria and were included in the review to be analyzed.

Results: The 10 studies showed the importance of surgical root canal retreatment as a treatment option in removing infections within the root canal system and its efficiency in periapical tissue healing. These studies investigated different aspects of healing of periapical lesion after surgical (retrograde) retreatment including success rates, follow-up duration, and updated studies in surgical (retrograde) retreatment.

Conclusions: Surgical root canal (retrograde) retreatment demonstrates its efficiency in reducing the period needed for healing of the periapical lesions in short-term follow-up compared to conventional orthograde retreatment.

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