[Case of reimplanted tooth with long-lasting clinical effect]

The author describes a case of reimplantation of 44 of a 35-year-old woman, 19 years ago. Later, 10 years after the reimplantation apical osteotomy, according to indications, was performed to the same tooth. The X-ray, performed in 1985, shows that resorptive processes around the tooth and root has not advances as yet. It started after the root treatment on the adjecent 46 in 1985. The author thinks that the mass failure of teeth reimplantation (short-term therapeutic effect of 5-6 years and not with all reimplantations) reduces the interest of the researchers in it without any grounds. The case described shows that, very likely, under certain conditions and certain operation technique, unconsciously blended in the case described, very good therapeutic effect could be relied on via the reimplantation. It is presumed that the initiation of resorption has been provoked by the devitalization of an adjacent tooth, possibly due to disturbed trophicity in the region around it. It has been concluded that a great many problems, still unknown, of teeth reimplantation wait their proper solution.