Sharing Passion for Fixing Teeth With Endo
Real endodontic cases, explained by a working endodontist. I'm Dr. Michael Trudeau, and this is where I share the fixes, the surprises, and the lessons from the chair, along with guest cases from fellow endodontists.
Practicing at Trudeau & Domark Endodontics, Suffolk, VA · 757-638-4500
Patient Centered Endodontics: The Rehabilitation of Compromised Teeth
Disclosure: QuickSplint has provided me with product at no cost in the past. I’m not paid for this post, and the opinions are my own from clinical use. QuickSplint is a chairside anterior bite plane.
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Survivorship bias. It’s what happens when we only look at the survivors (the cases, the people, the outcomes that made it through) and lose sight of the ones that didn’t make it, or that we
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This seems to be fairly predictable of this case type. Stabilize it. Monitor it. Watch it pulp canal obliterate (PCO). And the root tip kinda sails off into the sunset. Based on those that I’ve
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Sometimes the development of the tooth goes a little haywire and another tooth begins to develop within a tooth, but not completely. So we end up with this invagination leading to the pulp and sometimes
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It isn’t a new term. Restoratively Driven Endodontics that is. It’s not new. I came up with it in 2007/ 2008 during my endodontic residency at Albert Einstein making the term about 10 years old
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Another one for the external resorption recalls. Tooth #14. Diagnosis: symptomatic irreversible pulpitis and symptomatic apical periodontitis, with external resorption on the palatal. The resorption was removed with clean margins and repaired with amalgam. Endo
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The patient is a periodontist and insisted we give it a go. Got the 10 year follow-up the other day. We started with the surgical approach, then added internal calcium hydroxide with resorption removal. He
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Decision making under uncertainty is undoubtedly strained to the max when managing external crestal resorption. The literature is all but useless in guiding our decision making with regards to risks, benefits, and alternatives. An honest
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The embrasure. I don’t think most clinicians give enough thought to the embrasure. It’s the contact in three dimensions. It is dictated often by tooth position and or restorative. As long as there is sufficient
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This was an interesting tooth. It had a large talon on the palatal leading to a c shaped dens in dente or tooth within a tooth. There was a very large apical finding. Symptoms didn’t
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