Inferior alveolar nerve paresthesia damaged by overfilling a radiograph report of non-surgical management

Abstract

This paper reports a case of ipsilateral inferior alveolar nerve paresthesia because of gutta-percha overfilling of the left mandibular second molar into the surrounding bone marrow cavity and mandibular nerve canal, but the patient refused surgical debridement and nerve decompression. This patient was being followed-up radiologically CBCT up to five years for observing the dynamic changes of the overfilled gutta-percha.

Keywords

• Root canal therapy
• Overfilling
• Inferior alveolar nerve
• Paresthesia