Obturating Materials for Decidouos Dentition. A Review

      Аннотация: Prolonged caries in primary teeth eventually leads to extensive pulpal damage due to the bacterial invasion & their derived toxins, which makes endodontic treatment inevitable. Pulp therapy was advised in 1932 that aims to preserve the child’s health and to maintain deciduous teeth in a functional state until they are replaced by permanent teeth treatment of primary teeth is considered highly complicated. So in order to increase chances of success, treatment necessitates combination of diversity of factors, such as a precise diagnosis, thorough cleaning and shaping and disinfection with the materials having antibacterial properties followed by 3-dimensional obturation of the pulp space to obtain a hermatic seal followed by adequate final restoration.Zinc oxide eugenol discovered by Bonastre(1837) is one of the most widely used materials used for obturating root canals.

Ключевые слова: obturation, deciduous dentition, pulpectomy