Temporary Mental Nerve Paresthesia Originating from Periapical Infection

Many systemic and local factors can cause paresthesia, and it is rarely caused by infections of dental origin. This report presents a case of mental nerve paresthesia caused by endodontic infection of a mandibular left second premolar. Resolution of the paresthesia began two weeks after conventional...

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Autores principales: Genc Sen, Ozgur, Kaplan, Volkan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4544882/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26345692
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/457645
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description Many systemic and local factors can cause paresthesia, and it is rarely caused by infections of dental origin. This report presents a case of mental nerve paresthesia caused by endodontic infection of a mandibular left second premolar. Resolution of the paresthesia began two weeks after conventional root canal treatment associated with antibiotic therapy and was completed in eight weeks. One year follow-up radiograph indicated complete healing of the radiolucent periapical lesion. The tooth was asymptomatic and functional.
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spelling pubmed-45448822015-09-06 Temporary Mental Nerve Paresthesia Originating from Periapical Infection Genc Sen, Ozgur Kaplan, Volkan Case Rep Dent Case Report Many systemic and local factors can cause paresthesia, and it is rarely caused by infections of dental origin. This report presents a case of mental nerve paresthesia caused by endodontic infection of a mandibular left second premolar. Resolution of the paresthesia began two weeks after conventional root canal treatment associated with antibiotic therapy and was completed in eight weeks. One year follow-up radiograph indicated complete healing of the radiolucent periapical lesion. The tooth was asymptomatic and functional. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015 2015-08-05 /pmc/articles/PMC4544882/ /pubmed/26345692 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/457645 Text en Copyright © 2015 O. Genc Sen and V. Kaplan. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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