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The Assessment of Quality of the Root Canal Filling and the Number of Visits Needed for Completing Primary Root Canal Treatment by Operators with Different Experience

The main goal of root canal treatment (RCT) is to eradicate or essentially diminish the microbial population within the root canal system and to prevent reinfection by a proper chemo-mechanical preparation and hermetic final obturation of the root canal space. The aim of this study was to assess the...

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Autores principales: Pietrzycka, Krystyna, Radwanski, Mateusz, Hardan, Louis, Bourgi, Rim, Mancino, Davide, Haikel, Youssef, Lukomska-Szymanska, Monika
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9495316/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36135014
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/bioengineering9090468
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author Pietrzycka, Krystyna
Radwanski, Mateusz
Hardan, Louis
Bourgi, Rim
Mancino, Davide
Haikel, Youssef
Lukomska-Szymanska, Monika
author_facet Pietrzycka, Krystyna
Radwanski, Mateusz
Hardan, Louis
Bourgi, Rim
Mancino, Davide
Haikel, Youssef
Lukomska-Szymanska, Monika
author_sort Pietrzycka, Krystyna
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description The main goal of root canal treatment (RCT) is to eradicate or essentially diminish the microbial population within the root canal system and to prevent reinfection by a proper chemo-mechanical preparation and hermetic final obturation of the root canal space. The aim of this study was to assess the quality of the root canal filling and the number of visits needed for completing RCT by operators with different experience, including dentistry students (4th and 5th year), general dental practitioners (GDPs), and endodontists. Data from medical records of 798 patients were analyzed, obtaining 900 teeth and 1773 obturated canals according to the inclusion and exclusion criteria. A similar number of teeth was assessed in each group in terms of density and length of root canal filling and number of visits. The larger number of visits and the lower quality of treatment was observed for 4th year students than for other groups (p < 0.05); in contrast, the endodontists needed the lowest number of visits to complete RCT and more often overfilled teeth than other operator groups (p < 0.05). Interestingly, no statistical difference in quality of root canal filling was noted between 5th year students, GPDs and endodontists. The treatment of lower teeth demanded statistically more visits than that of upper teeth (p < 0.05). The results of the study emphasize that most of the root canal filling performed by operators was considered adequate, regardless of tooth type, files used and number of visits.
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spelling pubmed-94953162022-09-23 The Assessment of Quality of the Root Canal Filling and the Number of Visits Needed for Completing Primary Root Canal Treatment by Operators with Different Experience Pietrzycka, Krystyna Radwanski, Mateusz Hardan, Louis Bourgi, Rim Mancino, Davide Haikel, Youssef Lukomska-Szymanska, Monika Bioengineering (Basel) Article The main goal of root canal treatment (RCT) is to eradicate or essentially diminish the microbial population within the root canal system and to prevent reinfection by a proper chemo-mechanical preparation and hermetic final obturation of the root canal space. The aim of this study was to assess the quality of the root canal filling and the number of visits needed for completing RCT by operators with different experience, including dentistry students (4th and 5th year), general dental practitioners (GDPs), and endodontists. Data from medical records of 798 patients were analyzed, obtaining 900 teeth and 1773 obturated canals according to the inclusion and exclusion criteria. A similar number of teeth was assessed in each group in terms of density and length of root canal filling and number of visits. The larger number of visits and the lower quality of treatment was observed for 4th year students than for other groups (p < 0.05); in contrast, the endodontists needed the lowest number of visits to complete RCT and more often overfilled teeth than other operator groups (p < 0.05). Interestingly, no statistical difference in quality of root canal filling was noted between 5th year students, GPDs and endodontists. The treatment of lower teeth demanded statistically more visits than that of upper teeth (p < 0.05). The results of the study emphasize that most of the root canal filling performed by operators was considered adequate, regardless of tooth type, files used and number of visits. MDPI 2022-09-13 /pmc/articles/PMC9495316/ /pubmed/36135014 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/bioengineering9090468 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Pietrzycka, Krystyna
Radwanski, Mateusz
Hardan, Louis
Bourgi, Rim
Mancino, Davide
Haikel, Youssef
Lukomska-Szymanska, Monika
The Assessment of Quality of the Root Canal Filling and the Number of Visits Needed for Completing Primary Root Canal Treatment by Operators with Different Experience
title The Assessment of Quality of the Root Canal Filling and the Number of Visits Needed for Completing Primary Root Canal Treatment by Operators with Different Experience
title_full The Assessment of Quality of the Root Canal Filling and the Number of Visits Needed for Completing Primary Root Canal Treatment by Operators with Different Experience
title_fullStr The Assessment of Quality of the Root Canal Filling and the Number of Visits Needed for Completing Primary Root Canal Treatment by Operators with Different Experience
title_full_unstemmed The Assessment of Quality of the Root Canal Filling and the Number of Visits Needed for Completing Primary Root Canal Treatment by Operators with Different Experience
title_short The Assessment of Quality of the Root Canal Filling and the Number of Visits Needed for Completing Primary Root Canal Treatment by Operators with Different Experience
title_sort assessment of quality of the root canal filling and the number of visits needed for completing primary root canal treatment by operators with different experience
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9495316/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36135014
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/bioengineering9090468
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