1Senior Lecturer, Department of Periodontics and Oral Implantology, Institute of Dental Sciences, Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan (Deemed to be University), Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
2Professor & Head, Department of Periodontics and Oral Implantology, Institute of Dental Sciences, Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan (Deemed to be University), Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
3Reader, Department of Periodontics and Oral Implantology, Institute of Dental Sciences, Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan (Deemed to be University), Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
4Professor, Department of Periodontics and Oral Implantology, Institute of Dental Sciences, Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan (Deemed to be University), Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
*Corresponding Author: Dr. Gatha Mohanty Senior Lecturer, Department of Periodontics and Oral Implantology, Institute of Dental Sciences, Siksha ‘O ’Anusandhan (Deemed to be University), Khandagiri Square, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India e-mail: gathamohanty@soa.ac.in
Online published on 27 March, 2020.
One of the challenging problems faced by general dental practitioner is treatment and management of teeth with furcation involvement. In advanced furcation involvement cases when other treatment options are precluded for financial or other reasons, tunnel preparation procedure remains the preferable option to extraction. Specially in the posterior teeth gaining access for oral hygiene procedures is difficult and thereby this technique could be considered as an alternate and successful treatment modality. This case report presents the management of a grade IV furcation with a tunnelling approach.
Tunnel preparation, Grade IV furcation, Mandibular molar, Inter-radiclular brush, Ostectomy
