[Results of a survey on the usefulness of adding corticoids to root canal obturation pastes]

500 questionnaires were sent out. The statistical survey was carried out on 116 replies. It emerges from this survey that 81% of our colleagues who answered use a canal filling paste containing a corticoid. The reason for its use is the prevention of fairly serious medicamentous arthritis. A small number (5 colleagues) had complications which they ascribed to the associated corticoid. A few use a non-hardening paste containing a corticoid as a temporary canal filling.