Root canal treatment

Indication: When pulp cavity is exposed >1mm with infection and pain or when the pulp is necrosed and irreversibly destroyed with infection.

Procedure:

• Asses pulp cavity by ,making hole or opening
• Extrication of dead pulp
• Cleaning repeatedly
• Working length estimation(radiological)
• Obturation (filling of root canal or pulp cavity) final step in RCT
• Initially temporary is filling done
• If no pain after few weeks permanent filling is done
• Crowning
• While cleaning, steroid ( septadont dexamethose acetate), antiseptic, anti-inflammatory analgesic used
• Temporary filling: caviton (white past) becomes hard later, zinc oxide base + other chemicals

Instruments Used In RCT

• Files
• Brouch: spikes present
• Gp plane(gutton perhca points)
• (absorbent point papers) Absorbs pulp cavity contents