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From: Ahmad Tehrani To: ROOTS Sent: Monday, April 09, 2007 9:50 PM Subject: [roots] lateral 22 y.o. Female. She just wanted this tooth filled. I told her it wold be no problem as long as I extended the filling to the apex..-:) So to make my point, we started with pulp responsive testing first against her adjacent teeth. EPT, ice and hot test....all negative. Necrotic lateral....Totally asymptomatic....No sinus tract. I am always fearful of causing a flare up with these "dormant" CAP cases. So I always explain in detail (till I am blue in the face ) during consultation, not to make "excuses" afterwards.. Started cleaning out the caries, accessed the pulp and filed to a size 25 with pre-curved tip. Projected the canal and built up the tooth temporarily with composite. CH and closed with cavit. My question is how do you maintain the natural canal curvature with larger files? The wire film is a size 25 which looks like itis straighteneing the canal already. bending bigger files is a laborious task for me, so I probably follow the mantra of keep it small as practical I am afraid to strip perf the thin areas around the bend and wrecking it. All laterals have an apical hook that is easily mismanaged with blind rotary files. Been there , done that.....)) - AhmadAhmad, I don't think you can maintain that natural curvature if you are going to clean the apex. This one has more than one curve so bending a file is not going to prevent straightening. So you straighten it out a little. Do you think that hurts the case? I'm betting you will get a great result. You are right about that little apical hook. We are going to screw those up sometimes. Why not one step this one? The ones I worry about are the ones with the well formed lesions. They are the ones that blow on me and lower bi's seem to live to screw with me. Guy Ah. Another anterior elastic anterior rubber dam clamp fan! I hate those big honkin things that are always in the way. This is so much easier - Gary 
