Dental Hypotheses (Jan 2014)

Treatment of inflammatory root resorption using mineral trioxide aggregate: A case report

  • Roohollah Sharifi,
  • Masoud Parirokh,
  • Seyed Amir Razavi Satvati,
  • Mahmoud Torabinejad

DOI
https://doi.org/10.4103/2155-8213.140610
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 5, no. 4
pp. 172 – 176

Abstract

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Introduction: This report presents a case to show inflammatory root resorption can be successfully treated by using mineral trioxide aggregate (MTA). Case Report: A central maxillary incisor of an eight-year-old boy was avulsed associated with crown fracture secondary to a fall. The tooth was stored in ice. Early attempts at pulpal revascularization of the replanted tooth proved unsuccessful. To stop inflammatory root resorption, long-term calcium hydroxide therapy was employed. Despite the use of calcium hydroxide, resorption continued. Subsequent to the failure of that treatment, MTA was used as a root canal filling material. At 20-month follow-up, the tooth was asymptomatic and had clinical signs of ankylosis but external inflammatory root resorption had stopped. Discussion: MTA may be considered as an alternative option for the treatment of continuous external inflammatory root resorption.

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