BDS · Conservative Dentistry · TOPIC 03 Root Canal Treatment What you do once the pulp has crossed the threshold and the apex must be sealed A pulp that has crossed the irreversibility threshold has only two destinations: extraction or root canal treatment. RCT is the dental profession’s answer to the inflammation-to-necrosis-to-apical-disease cascade we walked through in the Pulp & Periapical Pathology note. The procedure is mechanically simple in concept — clean out the dead tissue, shape the canal, fill it tightly — but unforgiving in execution. Almost every endodontic failure traces…
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