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

Few cases are straight forward, we just have to be careful not to create some mess in excitement. 58 years female came to our clinic with complain of hot and cold sensitivity in her right upper back tooth. She also complain of food lodgement in same tooth and pain after that. She had medical history of arthritis. Few #root_canal_treatments and #crowns_bridge work in mouth. In case of arthritis, I try to complete the procedure as fast as possible, because patient tend to get

Practicing in a small town or a big city, these two are completely different scenario in respect to charges. Its same as comparing developing nations and developed nations. But comparing the quality of treatment, it may be exactly same. I started practicing microscope assisted dentistry in 2013. I was charging INR 1200/- for molar root canal at that time. Slowly earning from clinic was directly invested to upgrade clinic with equipment and to upgrade myself for clinical skill

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

I always enjoy endodontic re-treatments, as IMHO, If being a dentist I am not able to save the tooth by any means, it is meaningless to be a dentist. But, its not always, we are able to save the tooth. There are always some clinical conditions like #vertical_fractures, no #ferrule, periodontally compromised, etc, where it is impossible to save the tooth. In these conditions we have to extract the tooth and replace it by suitable means. He, 28 years healthy male patient, was

This is the case I must proud on. I attended endodontics course by Dr Gurpreet Singh in Nov' 2012 and with his advice bought #Dental_Operating_Microscope on 18th Feb' 2013. With some struggle of 2-3 months, this was the case I did completely under the microscope. This was not easy as I was not using rubber dam at that time. Microscope was a very basic one made in Ambala (HR), India with fixed binoculars at 45° with a CCTV camera attached to it with no recording option. I used