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Medical Forum / General / Dentistry / July 2006Small ball in root canal
Does anyone know what this is called? A while back I had an abscess in a tooth & when the dentist came to drill the root canals to drain the abscess, my body had created a small ball (calcium?) in the canals to prevent the infection from spreading. Anyone got any ideas? TIA Liam > Does anyone know what this is called? > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > Anyone got any ideas? It's called a pulp stone, if that's what your dentist means. It's not created to prevent spreading of the infection. Rather, a low-grade infection causes degeneration of the pulp (the nerve and connective tissue inside the tooth) and sometimes calcium salts are deposited on degenerate or dead tissue and give birth to the pulp stone. In other cases calcification is more extensive, leading to the obstruction of a great part of the root canal system. Both conditions may make root canal treatment very difficult or even impossible. Regards, George > It's called a pulp stone, if that's what your dentist means. It's not > created to prevent spreading of the infection. Rather, a low-grade [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > Regards, > George Many thanks George, I've been wondering what it was called for ages now. All the Best Liam Yes it sounds like small ball in root canal ..... -- Joel34 Small ball in root canal is trouble ..... Humongous ball in root canal is worse. (Sounds like the message in my last fortune cookie) -- Joel34 |
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