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Factors associated with root canal ledging during instrumentation
Author(s) -
Kapalas A.,
Lambrianidis T.
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
dental traumatology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.82
H-Index - 81
eISSN - 1600-9657
pISSN - 1600-4469
DOI - 10.1034/j.1600-9657.2000.016005229.x
Subject(s) - dentistry , root canal , endodontist , medicine , orthodontics , incidence (geometry) , pulp (tooth) , mathematics , geometry
– The purpose of this study was to identify the presence of a ledge in 141 cases treated in an undergraduate clinic and in 103 cases treated by endodontists, and to identify the clinical factors associated with ledging. A total of 626 root canals were examined and the factors analyzed were canal location, tooth number and canal curvature. The results indicated that 51.5% of the canals treated by students had been ledged, whereas the percentage was 33.2% for intact pulp cavities treated by endodontists and 40.6% in cases of endodontic retreatment. Canal location was found to have an effect on the incidence of ledging as the mesiobuccal, mesiolingual and distal buccal root canals exhibited a significantly higher ledge incidence rate than the distal and palatal root canals. Canal curvature was the most significant variable affecting the incidence of ledging.