Not that I do one every week…

Here’s a case that was finished last year. Previous endo, post and crown. The tooth was symptomatic and demonstrated either apical external resorption, or more likely, some sort of apical surgery (the patient didn’t recall any surgery but that doesn’t always mean it was not done).

Anyway, the retreatment was started, the canal was medicated, the patient forgot to come back for a few months, xray then showed washout of the calcium hydroxide, but some degree of apical healing. Endo was finished; some apical sealer puffs can be seen.

The recall today shows progressive apical healing and resorption of the extra sealer.

Speaking of pulling things out from the back of the desk drawer, I had a case today that we aborted the root canal on because of a crack that I found that ran through the floor of the pulp chamber.

I dug the picture above and the two below of cracked teeth out from my archives.