Five-year Follow-up of Successful Intentional Replantation

From Volume 26, Issue 9, November 1999 | Pages 388-390

Authors

Jamal Aqrabawi

DDS, DMD, DSc

Diplomate American Board of Endodontics, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Jordan, Amman-Jordan

Articles by Jamal Aqrabawi

Abstract

Intentional replantation has been practised for many years as a treatment modality for pulpless teeth. Although the success ratio for intentional replantation is far below that for routine or surgical endodontics, one should consider this procedure as an alternative to tooth extraction. Two cases of mandibular second molars which were treated with intentional replantation and retrograde fillings are reported in this article. At the 5-year recall visit, the radiographs showed no evidence of pathological changes.

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