Retreatment Series: Episode 2

Root canal retreatment seems to be one of the biggest challenges in the Endodontic therapy, in the retreatment episodes we will review different scenarios with different cases.

In Endodontics we are dealing  with a lot of challenges such as anatomy, mishaps, instrument separation, etc. but one of the biggest challenges is to deal safely with cases of retreatment that may present unusual anatomies or missed canals.

First of all, in case of retreatment, the clinician must have a strong idea about the causes that led to the failure of the initial treatment: it is impossible to know the exact cause in every case but, in order to reduce the risk of failure, assessment of the most likely reason of failure must be done. If we identify this reason, we can easily avoid it during the Retreatment, hence increasing the success of the therapy.  

In the episode 1 I reviewed a case of retreatment due to missed Anatomy, in this case (Episode 2) I treated an Upper Central Incisor in a 10y Old girl with broken tooth, short filling & Open Apex.