They were really tight. Hopefully the tooth just has these two and no others that I wasn’t able to find.

The rotation of this tooth allows us to see curves that would otherwise not appear as obviously on film. The rotation also allows us to get a good look at how the second MB canal merges with the first.

This case was referred because the dentist started the endo and could only find 2 canals that were in an unusual configuration. That’s a duplicate of a working film that they took and sent with the patient.

After I got in and did some clean up, the 3 canals I found were configured as ML, B, DL. It’s a variation of a C-Shaped canal system.

I’m almost finished posting all of my interesting archived cases. Just one more to go after this one:

This one is from about 6 years ago, which explains the multiple backfill voids in the obturation. Anyway, I don’t know how many of my peers would attempt a retreat on this tooth. That post which looks like it would tack down drywall appears menacing to remove. It actually came out extremely easily. That was a pleasant surprise. The other surprise was the fifth canal.

That’s one mutant tooth.

Receptionchick says that my desk is way too messy so she bought an in/out tray for me to hide stuff. This seems to have helped a little and so I’m going through my desk drawers again to clean them up.

Here’s a cool case I completed in 2002–a 5 canal lower molar.