Indian Journal of Public Health Research & Development

  • Year: 2019
  • Volume: 10
  • Issue: 11

Evaluation of Factors Responsible for Failure of Root Canal Treatment in an Adult Indian Population: A Cross Sectional Study

  • Author:
  • Anuj Varshney1, Aditya Shetty2,, Mithra N. Hegde3, Shishir Shetty4, Lakshmi Nidhi Rao5
  • Total Page Count: 5
  • Page Number: 1250 to 1254

1Post Graduate Student, Nitte University, Deralakatte, Mangalore

2Additional Professor, Nitte University, Deralakatte, Mangalore

3Head of Department Nitte University, Deralakatte, Mangalore

4Professor, Nitte University, Deralakatte, Mangalore

5Sr. Lecturer, Absmids, Nitte University, Deralakatte, Mangalore

*Corresponding Author: Prof. Dr. Aditya Shetty Additional Professor, AB Shetty Memorial Institute of dental Sciences, Deralakatte, Mangalore, e-mail id: shetty_aditya1@yahoo.co.in

Online published on 27 March, 2020.

Abstract

The root canal treatment failure is a frequentproblem occurring in dentistry. Inadequate chemo mechanicalpreparation, poor obturation, over obturation, persistence of bacteria, instrument separation, missing canal, coronal microleakage are some of the causes responsible for the failure of the root canal treatment. 400 root canal treated teeth with failure were included in this study and were recorded using digital radiography. Under obturation was the predominant factor for the failure of root canal treatment. The larger number of the endodontic failures was found in the timeperiod of within 4–5 years. The maximum average time period causing failure was seen to be 3.85 yearsfor over obturation..

Keywords

Over obturation, microleakage, persistent periapical infection