Endodontic management and cone-beam computed tomography evaluation of seven maxillary and mandibular molars with single roots and single canals in a patient

Journal of Endodontics

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 103-109

  Ioannidis, Konstantinos ^a   Lambrianidis, Theodore ^a   Beltes, Panagiotis ^a   Besi, Eleni ^b   Malliari, Maria ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b EASTBOURNE DISTRICT GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cone beam CT; single canal; single root; tooth morphology

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; ENDODONTICS; HUMAN; MALE; MANDIBLE; MAXILLA; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MOLAR TOOTH; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; RADIOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TOOTH MALFORMATION; TOOTH PULP; TOOTH RADIOGRAPHY; TOOTH ROOT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; DENTAL PULP CAVITY; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MANDIBLE; MAXILLA; MIDDLE AGED; MOLAR; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; RADIOGRAPHY, DENTAL, DIGITAL; ROOT CANAL THERAPY; TOOTH ABNORMALITIES; TOOTH ROOT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 78650174089     PISSN: 00992399     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.joen.2010.09.001     Document Type: Article

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