An endodontic-prosthodontic approach to internal tooth reinforcement

Recent years have seen an emphatic surge of using root canal therapy as a means of retaining teeth which otherwise would have been extracted. Many of those endodontically treated teeth are badly broken down, requiring extensive rebuilding to make them restorable as individual units or units in fixed or removable prosthetic designs. The authors present an endodontic-prosthodontic approach in evaluating those teeth and in resolving problems on how best to strengthen the endodontically treated tooth to make it a viable component of the mouth.