Open AccessCurved canals: Ancestral files revisited
Author(s) -
Nidhi Jain,
Suneja Tushar
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
indian journal of dental research/indian journal of dental research
Language(s) - Uncategorized
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.277
H-Index - 43
eISSN - 1998-3603
pISSN - 0970-9290
DOI - 10.4103/0970-9290.42964
Subject(s) - root canal , root (linguistics) , orthodontics , variety (cybernetics) , dentistry , computer science , mathematics , medicine , artificial intelligence , philosophy , linguistics
The aim of this article is to provide an insight into different techniques of cleaning and shaping of curved root canals with hand instruments. Although a plethora of root canal instruments like ProFile, ProTaper, LightSpeed etc dominate the current scenario, the inexpensive conventional root canal hand files such as K-files and flexible files can be used to get optimum results when handled meticulously. Special emphasis has been put on the modifications in biomechanical canal preparation in a variety of curved canal cases. This article compiles a series of clinical cases of root canals with curvatures in the middle and apical third and with S-shaped curvatures that were successfully completed by employing only conventional root canal hand instruments.