If patient is not willing for a dental implant, it may be necessary to save wisdom teeth so that it can be used as abutment for a bridge. 46 years male patient referred to our practice to save lower left wisdom tooth with large buccal caries. C/E: Carious #38, caries mainly involving buccal side. Cold test: +ve R/E: N/S periapical changes, Something bad happened to my x ray device, so the X-rays in this case are not very clear. Apologies for that. Tx plan: Slow caries excavat

Everything has changed, about protocols for root canal treatment, except the anatomy. #Root_canal_anatomy is still the same, we are just exploring it more and more and modifying our protocols accordingly. Initially dentists were taught, there is one canal in anterior teeth and two in premolars and then three in molars with some xyz exceptions ;). With time, we found more canals and then it became usual to get like MB2, a mid mesial, etc. Now we have shifted to lateral anatomy