Will that work ??

[Reham Khaled]

hello Doctors ...

well i had a situation last year in the extracted teeth in the lab it was that i've done all the steps until the cleaning and shaping great and after my obturation i saw voids in the filled canal :(
well at that time i thought i figured a way to correct it .. well i started to think that i will remove the part with the void with GG and the i used the vertical compaction technique by cutting the GP into small pices and you know place them in the canal with heating them and vertically compacting it :D
well to tell you it worked out and reduces the voids but not completly :(

well my question is if that happend with me next year in the patient ,,well i wont let the patient go with voids ..

so will it work or is there another better idea ???
thank you ..

[Reham Khaled]

im so sorry i place my question in the wrong place
may someone re- post it in the correct area ..

sorry again ..

[Khaled Balto]

Well....Dr. Reham First of all I am impresed that you are pre-graduate student and using warm obturation....have you had enough time to master the lateral compaction techniques?

It is better to remove the GP with System B all the way to the void area and then re-fill the space with Obtura II.

Good luck

[Reham Khaled]

thanks doctor khaled for the complement :)
yes i did master it well thank God ,, and all what i've done is give a try in the teeth and i almost make it right :D
yes doctor i know that information is the best but not sure that i can use it in the clinic pre -graduated .. Are they avaliable in our clinics ??
if yes that is great i will follow that , but if not what is the simpler way ??

thanks

[Khaled Balto]

That is the simplest way....other ways will be just more complicated

[Reham Khaled]

ok thanks doctor for your advice :D

[endodontist]

voids are not prognostic factor niether factor
it might be risk factor
thats why you see editors pushing people toward Miro-CT studies these days
:rolleyes: i guarantee you that your name will be = to glickman if you find a way
to correlate btw voids & prognosis using miro-CT
;) bite me if one did it w/o a brilliant programmer

[Khaled Balto]

I got your point...but think about it once more....before your equation of equality with Glickman......are you saying filling with voids = success.....no one will have the gut to say that. Also, voids are things we can correct...for reasons....other wise you might also say lt is OK not go to the apex and ask once more why do we fill root canal spaces any ways!!!

[Wajih]

I have heard a lot of people worried of seeing their obturations under the cone beam CT or CBCT (Micro CT is not official anymore). However, When I wanted to see my obturation under CBCT, I see a lot of artifacts due to GP and sealar. So much so it distorted much of the other possible findings. I was advised by radiologist to rinse even bio-calc before referring for CBCT, as even caOH can cause artifacts.