CRYOTHERAPY IN ENDODONTICS.

      Аннотация: Cryotherapy alludes to bringing down or diminishing the tissue temperature for therapeutic purposes. The term cryotherapy is gotten from the Greek word cryos, signifying “cold”. The magnitude of the adjustment in temperature and biophysical changes in the tissues rely on several factors such as the distinctions in the object’s temperature and the heat or cold application, exposure duration, thermal conductivity of the tissues, and sort of thermal agents employed. The clinical ramifications of this sort of treatment in the human body cause changes in the host’s nearby temperature. Cryotherapy has been commonly practiced in medical and other fields of dentistry for long. Due to the apparent advantages and considerable positive effects, cryo-treatment is now expanding widely in the field of endodontics.Cryotherapy is a simple and cheap supplementary method for minimizing postoperative pain in cases of symptomatic apical periodontitis, controlling pulpal hemorrhage during vital pulp therapy & for controlling postsurgical swelling and pain after endodontic surgery. This book contains the A to Z of cryotherapy in the field of endodontics.

Ключевые слова: cryogenic treatment, cryotherapy, endodontics, endodontic postoperative pain, nickel-titanium endodontic instruments