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From: Sergiu Nicola
To: ROOTS
Sent: Apr 17, 2008
Subject: [roots] vrf or huge lateral canal
Hi everybody. A friend of mine, a gp, calls me at my office , last friday asking me if i can make an emergency pulpectomy
for him , becouse he is in deep pain.
and he came.....i saw the x-ray , and the initial diagnostic just ran from my mouth: well my friend , i think we have a
VRF here...... J type radiolucency, i bet there is a localised perio pocket,(and it was, 5 mm right where the xray "told" us)
so , we went for coronal acces, to see if there is any sign of fracture or something.
root canals were allready necrotic, i saw nothing special, and today , (all symptoms disapeared) i obturated it.
Time will tell. I wouldn't be in any big hurry to condemn this tooth. Keep him on recall. I think there's a good chance
this will heal and do fine. - Mark
thank you Mark, i thought that so. i can hardly wait 1 year recall.
i advised him to make a crown 'though - Sergiu Nicola
vrf or huge lateral canal
