Intro to Endodontics

Question 1

6 basic steps in endodontic treatment?

Answer 1

1. access opening
2. working length determination
3. Instrumentation (cleaning and shaping)
4. preparation of obturation
5. obturation
6. coronal seal

Question 2

What is the root Canal System?

Answer 2

Area of the tooth which houses the dental pulp

Question 3

What is the pulp chamber?

Answer 3

found in the crown of the tooth

Question 4

What is the roof of the pulp?

Answer 4

Most coronal aspect of the pulp chamber

Question 5

What is the floor of pulp chamber?

Answer 5

In roots with more than one canal, the cervical extent of the chamber

Question 6

What are pulp horns?

Answer 6

projections of pulp from the pulp chamber toward cusp tips

Question 7

What is the Canal orifice?

Answer 7

opening of a canal form the pulp chamber into the root

Question 8

What is a root canal?

Answer 8

Area of the pulp within the root or roots

Question 9

What are accessory or lateral canals?

Answer 9

Canals which branch off the main canal and exit away from the apical foramen

Question 10

How often is accessory or lateral canals in the apical third of a tooth?

Answer 10

74%

Question 11

What is the apical foramen?

Answer 11

where pulp exits from the root apex

Question 12

What is apical contriction?

Answer 12

narrowest part of the root canal near the apex (not always present)

Question 13

Where does a root canal filing terminate?

Answer 13

apical constriction of root canal

Question 14

Is there always symmetriy with a canal and shape of the root?

Answer 14

YES! great thing to know

Question 15

What is this showing

Answer 15

Law of symmetry

Question 16

What types of perforations are there?

Answer 16

Furcal and lateral perforations

Question 17

Answer 17

Maxillary central incisor

Question 18

What classification/ types are these?

Answer 18

Weine classification

Type 1,2,3,4