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  • Dental Caries

    Dental caries, also known as tooth decay or a cavity, is an infection, bacterial in origin, that causes demineralization and destruction of ...

  • Space Maintainer

    Dental space maintainers can help keep the space for an adult tooth open if the baby tooth has been lost too early...

  • Teeth Whitening

    Whitening, or "tooth bleaching", is the most common cosmetic dental procedure. While many whitening options are now available, including ove...

  • Laser Root Canal Treatment

    Laser technology was introduced to endodontics with the goal of improving the results obtained with traditional procedures through the use o...

  • Immediate Implants

    Immediate implants are an increasingly common strategy to preserve bone and reduce treatment times which includes the placement of a dental...

  • Impaction

    An impacted tooth is one that fails to erupt into the dental arch within the specific time. Because impacted teeth do not erupt, they ar...

  • Operculectomy

    Operculectomy is a minor surgical procedure where the affected soft tissue covering and surrounding the tooth is removed. This leaves an ar...

  • Lip Lengthening

    Lip Lengthening is an in-office clinical procedure carried out under local anesthesia (freeze up), which can be helped with the aid of a re...

  • Biopsy

    A biopsy is a simple surgery that removes samples of soft tissue or bone from the body. In the case of dentists, this may be gum tissue, a t...

  • Facial Esthetic Surgeries

    Facial cosmetic surgery has long been the solution of choice for the correction of physical malformations resulting from aging, disease, inj...

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Apexification with MTA

Departments: Pedodontics

Recently, mineral trioxide aggregate (MTA) has been popularized in endodontics due to a large amount of research indicating the beneficial properties of the material in terms of bio-compatibility, ease of manipulation and placement, and a wide array of applications.It has been used for procedures ranging from direct pulp capping to perforation repair as well as for inducing an artificial barrier in open-apex cases (apexification). A study comparing the effectiveness of calcium hydroxide versus MTA has shown that this material has been found to be as effective as calcium hydroxide (Ca(OH)2) for the treatment of cases with an open apex. MTA has shown to be effective in performing the same procedure in a considerably lesser period of time with predictable results. The authors also concluded that the chances for biological calcific bridge formation are favorable when the root canal apices are flush or underfilled with MTA.