Top 5 Advice for Root Canal Treatment!

Endo frost your GP points!

When an endodontist initially shared this first tip with me, it really blew my mind! So, getting all the accessory points in is, in my view, the most challenging aspect of obturating with cold lateral condensation.

Every time I attempt to insert them, they either crimp up or don’t go down as far as I would want since they are so thin and fragile. Ask your nurse to spray the accessory points with endofrost or pharmethyl to make them more durable, and then apply a thin layer of sealant to the tip.

It becomes very cold from the Endo frost and stiff from the sealer, making it easy to glide down the canal without it crinkling. When I began doing this, I discovered that getting the points down the canal was a lot simpler and that I could get a lot more in!

You can create your own surgical suction!

Make your own surgical suction is the second piece of advice, then! We all know that in order to aspirate sodium hypochlorite, you should utilize a tiny surgical suction tip, but your workplace may not have any available.

Consequently, by employing the curly saliva ejectors, you may truly create our own! Because of the wire inside, cutting them may be a little tricky, but if you twist and spin the wire, it will eventually separate.

To reduce the likelihood that hypochlorite may leak into the patient’s mouth via the rubber dam, you want to get this suction as near to the pulp chamber as you can. This will allow you to suction the hypochlorite before it exits the pulp chamber.

Use several file types for WL radiography!

This final piece of advice will be useful when you take working length radiographs. There are many canals, particularly in molars, and when you take your working length radiograph, there may be three or four files present.

Sometimes it may be difficult to determine which file is in which canal. Placing a distinct file type in each canal is a simple method to distinguish. Put a k-file in one and a hedstrom file in the other since, for a lower molar, it might be difficult to discern between the mesiolingual and mesiobucal canals. Whatever you put in the distal canal won’t matter since it will be evident.

Then take your x-ray, and you’ll be able to tell which is which by looking at the various flute shapes on the files on the x-ray. Use a different size file if you don’t have several file types or if you wish to distinguish between three canals, for instance on an upper molar.

Utilize an ultrasound!

Utilize your ultrasonic scaler to the fullest extent, then, as our fourth piece of advice! Because there are so many applications for ultrasonics in endo, we could produce a whole film on it, but here are a few ways it may simplify your life!

Consider your ultrasonic as a slower handpiece that is safer and has far superior vision. It may be used to remove dentine while looking for canals, and it’s much superior to the slow handpiece since you can do so with much more control and better vision because the tip is so thin, whereas the slow speed handpiece entirely obstructs your view.

When used with sodium hypochlorite, it’s also the greatest approach to get rid of pulp tissue and stones. You can check this website for more information about ultra-sounding!

Keep the simple things in mind!

Utilize your surroundings properly is our fifth and last piece of advice. The toughest part of having to repeatedly remind your patient to expand their mouth wider is that you know endo takes a long time and the patient has to keep their mouth open for a long time.

Give them a mouth biting prop to use as a chewing aid during the endo. The patient will be lot more at ease since they have something to gnaw on and their mouth won’t be progressively closing every minute.

Another tool you may use is your rubber dam. When verifying the working length, clip the apex locator tip to the rubber dam, make the necessary file adjustments, and then simply pick it back up. This eliminates a lot of effort and time.

And lastly, when utilizing an endo ring with a sponge, ask your nurse to apply calcium hydroxide or glyde paste to the edge of the ring rather than a pad. Therefore, you don’t need to ask your nurse for the pad; you may just glyde your documents right immediately.