C-shaped canals: diagnosis and treatment
1Endodontic Section, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 5901 East 7th Street, Long Beach, CA 90822, USA.
General Dentistry
|October 24, 2012
Abstract:
C-shaped canal configurations present special clinical problems including relief of pain, copious bleeding, and difficulty in cleaning, shaping, and filling. A review of the literature, radiographic characteristics that make diagnosis possible before the canal is accessed, and suggestions for instrumentation and filling are provided here.
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