Healing after removal of fractured protaper
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From: Marga Ree To: ROOTS Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2006 1:24 AM Subject: [roots] Healing despite a fractured instrument Patient was referred to remove a fractured ProTaper, # S2, from the mesiobuccal canal of 36. I was not able to retrieve it, but could bypass it with a K3 30/04, after using a lot of hand files to start with. All canals were patent and the tooth was treated in 2 sessions. I placed a fiber post in one of the distal canals, and made a composite build-up. Six months follow-up shows healing. Patient is scheduled for a crown. I am more and more reluctant to sacrifice sound tooth structure to retrieve a separated instrument. I have done this on regular basis over the past 7 years, but I was not always happy with the final result, despite the fact that I usually was able to remove it. It is not always easy to decide when to stop, usually after finishing the obturation you know exactly when you should have stopped...........Marga
The opinions and photographs within this web page are not ours. Authors have been credited for the individual posts where they are. Photos: Courtesy of Marga Ree - www.rxroots.com Very nice work Marga as ever. thanks for showing it to us. Please can I ask what the sealer was? - Stephen Day. Thanks Stephen. The sealer was Epiphany.- Marga Marga, beautiful case. I agree with your comments regarding retrieval. I know it is a wonderful talent to remove these instruments, however we can achieve our biologic goals without removal in some cases. I think the lit. supports this as well as clinical experience. Maybe I say this since I am not so good at removal ;-) - Kendel Very nice treatment and healing Marga! - Randy Hedrick Marga, I remember this article----I love the line "skilled endodontitst". You say you were surprised. May I ask in what way? It would have been nice to be able to separate cases that were successfully bypassed, versus blocked. It seems from reading this that this study is perhaps some of the best evidence we have regarding this topic? Thank you Marga, - Kendel Kendel, I was surprised because I always have thought that the presence of a separated instrument in necrotic infected teeth (I don't talk about vital cases) does affect the prognosis of an endodontic treatment, that is at least what I see in my practice. These cases are usually performed by general practitioners, although occasionally I also retreat cases that have been carried out by endodontists. I totally agree with you. It would have been interesting if the authors would have included the variables: succesfully bypassed or blocked, I am convinced that this would have made a difference. In addition, it would also have been interesting to know in which stage of the treatment (again, in necrotic, infected cases) the instrument fractured. The authors mention this in the discussion: Although we found only a small effect on outcome for a retained fractured instrument, it is likely that the ultimate prognosis may depend on the stage and degree of canal preparation when instrument breakage occurs and, therefore,the extent to which microbial control is compromised (1, 4, 12, 24). This information was not available from our study sample. Since the treatments were performed by experienced operators, it is not very likely that separation occurred in the initial stage of rct. If this were the case, my common sense says this should have affected the outcome in an unfavourable way. Finally, there was a difference in healing of 6,2 % when the tooth had a radiolucency, but it was not statistically significant. When the tooth had an associated periapical lesion, healing was lower when a fractured instrument was present (86.7% versus 92.9%[control]), but this 6.2% difference was not statistically significant (95% confidence interval: 3.0% to 15.3%; p 0.21, Fisher’s exact test). If I were the patient, I would not be satisfied if my dentist would refer to this paper, in a attempt to convince me that it would be useless to make an effort to bypass or remove the file. I would always do an attempt, no matter what the lit says. - Marga Thanks Marga, and I agree with these sentiments. Experience and judgement helps to make these decisions---I'm sure we could conjure up a sort of "decision tree" to guide us, which is no doubt what we all do informally at least. cleanliness of canal at time of separation, position of separated frag, root anatomy, ability to bypass, vital/necrotic, etc. - Kendel I think it is still reasonable to make an attempt to conservatively remove a separated instrument if it can be done without hogging out the canal. And that usually starts with bypassing it with handfiles. After handfile enlargement, then you can make a fairly decent go/no go decision. Obviously, size, where fractured, dilacerations, you guys all know this crap, affects the decision process.- gary I agree with you Marga. Mesial roots of mandibular molars and MB of maxillary molars are the places where you usually find those "gifts". I admire those who can conservatively remove broken files deep in the apicsal third and leave the dentin relatively intact. I don't see the benefit of hacking up the root in an attempt to provide a staging platform for removal. As I have said MANY times on this forum, there is precious little support in the literature to justify this - especially in vital cases. If you have decent clinical skills you can frequently bypass the broken fragment with much greater ease. And farnkly, I haven't seen a lot of these cases fail - even the necrotic ones. Your case is a great example of how this strategy can work to preserve root dentin. With the prevalence of cases being referred to me for "file removal" - I simply can't see spending 2 hours on a tooth just to try to remove a file. THEN do the rest of teh case "normally". I'd have to charge twice my normal fee - which ( with final cost of restoration) would very often bring the case very close to the cost fo extraction and implant. Thanks for posting that. - Rob Now Marga this is why I log onto Roots........beautiful........ I cant even see the file at the end. I tell you time and time again you are the master. You hold onto the cases til you have long term results and I love your presentations. You are so humble but you do such beautiful work.- Glenn In my hands, especially 2nd molars. I snapped two in two weeks, something I hadn’t done for a long while, primarily because of something I rarely see discussed. It is one thing to establish straight line access. It is another to be able to orient the rotary file and handpiece in line with that access in 2nd molar regions with limited vertical dimension, often banging the top of the handpiece off of the rubber dam. Please, someone, somewhere, make me some files in a 15-17 mm range. I can’t be the only one on the planet who would like to have these. .06 and 08 would be even stiffer if shorter in say the c class or miltex hi five class. And rotaries would give a little more clearance to work with in tight spots. - gary Very true Gary ..............Rotaries in 2nd molar regions are a bit difficult and many a times all I can get in is an SX and rest is all by hand. I can't risk breakage as I don't have the required armamentarium to retrieve separated instruments.The 15-17 mm range would certainly help.- Sachin Gary: Roydent and Schwed have 19 mm SS hand files, you can cut 2 mm's and make them 17 mm long. Then the .06 becomes a 10 a #08 becomes a #15 and so on. Buchanan files (GT's) are supplied in 17 mm if you can use the GT system. The SX hand-protaper comes in 19 mm - Ben Great case Marga. Out here I don't have any instrument removal equipment nor the expertise so bypass is the only option left here and it works good as you have said provided it is done properly.- Sachin As Marga states it is a difficult decision when to stop your attempt to remove a fractured instrument. If one considers that if the rest of the treatment is done correctly apparently the negative influence of fractured instruments on the outcome is rather limited as can be seen in the attached paper. It should be realized that the results from this paper are coming from specialist practices. But the results make you rather conservative in your attempts to remove these instruments.- Paul Wesselink Great work, Marga. This what nailed me to ProTapers. Back when I was breaking files, I was always able to get around a ProTaper except in one instance...broke a SX up high by screwing it in...dumb newbie. Thanks for a nice case. Guy
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