Introduction to Endodontics Endodontic Insruments

Dr. Muna Marashdeh Click to edit Master subtitle style MSc. Endodontics

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What is Endodontics?

Endodontics is the specialty of dentistry that manages the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of the dental pulp and the periradicular tissues that surround the root of the tooth. "Endo" is the Greek word ="inside "odont" is Greek ="tooth" Endodontic treatment =treats the inside of the tooth

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The pulp

Inside the tooth, under enamel and dentin, is a soft tissue called the pulp Extends from the crown of the tooth to the tip of the roots where it connects to the tissues surrounding the root Contains
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blood vessels,

Creates the surrounding hard tissues of the tooth during development The pulp is important during a tooths growth and development Once a tooth is fully mature it can survive without the pulp, because the tooth continues to be nourished by the tissues 2/15/13

Objectives of Endodontic Treatment

Relief of pain = symptom free To render the affected tooth biologically acceptable and functioning without a diagnosable pathosis Removal of pulp from root(s) of tooth Disinfections of root and surrounding bone Root canal treatment is an attempt to retain a tooth which may otherwise require extraction.

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Indications for Endodontic Therapy

1. Teeth with pulpal and /or priapical pathosis. 2. Teeth with no pulpal or periapical pathosis may need endodontic treatment due to: The need for post and core construction to rebuild the missing coronal portion of the tooth Traumatic pulp exposure due dental work or accidental

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Contraindications for Endodontic Therapy

1-Teeth with insufficient periodontal support. 2-Teeth with vertical root fracture. 4-Non restorable teeth which can not properly function after endodontic treatment. 5-Non strategic teeth which can not serve in occlusion or as abutments after endodontic treatment
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Phases of Endodontics treatment

Diagnostic phase Preparatory phase (cleaning & shaping)

Obturation phase

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Diagnostic phase

During this phase the condition of the tooth is determined and the plan of treatment is developed Examination A kit for examination and diagnosis includes (1) a front surface mouth mirror; (2) a periodontal probe; (3) an explorer, such as the double-ended No. 5 explorer; (4) spoon excavator ; (5)the Glick No. 1 instrument; and (6) cotton forceps.

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Endodont ic Explorer

Explorers are doubleended instruments with long tapered tines at either a right or an obtuse angle. This 2/15/13 design

Spoon Excavator

The spoon excavator is a longshank instrument.

The excavator is used to remove caries, deep temporary cement, 2/15/13

No. 1 instrument is used for placement of temporary restorations with the paddle end and removal (and then 2/15/13 condensatio

Glick No. 1 instrume The Glick nt

Preparatory Phase(Cleaning & Shaping)

During this phase the condition of the tooth is determined and the plan of treatment is developed.

Instruments used for access and cleaning and shaping include (1)hand pieces (slow and high speed),(2) burs, (3)rubber dam, (4) a 5- to 6-ml Luer-Lok syringe with a 27-gauge needle, (5)locking cotton pliers, (6) rotary instruments (Gates-Glidden drills), (7) a plastic instrument (Glick No. 1) for temporary placement, (8) broaches 2/15/13 and files, (9) a lentulo spiral drill, and

Rubber Dam

Rubber dam over the area to isolate the tooth, keep it clean and free of saliva during the dental 2/15/13 procedure

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Irrigation Syringe

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Nomenclature for Instruments

The nomenclature follows the recommendations of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO): 1. Hand-operated include K-type reamers and files, broaches, and Hedstrom-type files.

2. Engine-driven are hand types that have a latch that inserts into a slow2/15/13 speed handpiece. These include rotary

PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS

To debride a region of the canal space completely, the instrument must contact and plane all walls. Despite continual improvements in design and physical properties, there are still no instruments that totally clean and shape all root canal spaces. Stainless steel instruments are relatively inflexible, which renders them not particularly adaptable to canal curvatures.

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Instrument Fabrication

A hand-operated reamer or file begins as a round wire that is modified to form a tapered instrument with cutting edges. The instrument is used with a twisting (reaming) or pulling (filing) motion in an attempt to produce clean, smooth, symmetrical canal walls.

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Hand-Operated Instruments
Several

cross-sectional shapes of files are commercially available

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Two techniques for manufacturing these instruments have been developed Machined Ground Twisted

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Machined One technique involves machining (grinding) the instrument directly on a lathe; an example is the Hedstrom-type file, All nickel-titanium instruments are machined Some manufacturers produce K-type files using the machined (lathe-grinding) process . This change from the grinding and twisting manufacturing process results in different physical and working properties from the original K-type file For instance, the machined file has less rotational resistance to breakage than a ground-twisted file of the same size. 2/15/13

Hedstrom file, machined by rotating a wire on a lathe. Note the spiral shape. These are efficient cutters (on the pull stroke) but are more susceptible to separation when

Ground-Twisted Another technique consists of first grinding, then twisting. Raw wire is ground into tapered geometric blanks: square, triangular, and rhomboid. The blanks are then twisted counterclockwise to produce helical cutting edges. These are K-type files and reamers.

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Ground-twisted instruments. A, A square file blank ground from wire. After twisting counterclockwise, the appearance of a file (more flutes) (B) and reamer (fewer flutes) (C).

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Standardization

Lengths
Files and reamers are available in three shaft lengths: 21, 25, and 31 mm. Shorter instruments afford improved operator control and easier access to posterior teeth, to which limited opening impairs access. The 25- and 31-mm instruments are used for longer roots. The 25-mm instruments are the most commonly used instruments during root canal preparation.

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Sizing
Dimensions of K-type files and reamers are designated according to the diameters of the instrument at specified positions along its length (as stated in ADA specification No. 28) File tip diameters increase in 0.05-mm increments up to the size 60 file (0.60 mm at the tip), and then by 0.10-mm increments up to size 140. The diameter at the tip of the point is known as D0. The spiral cutting edge of the instrument must be at least 16 mm long, and the diameter at this point is D16.

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The file diameter increases at a rate of 0.02 mm per running millimeter of length The nickel-titanium rotary instruments have other variable tapers of 0.04 and 0.06. For every millimeter of length, these greater tapers make these more aggressive in creating marked flaring preparation

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Tip Design
Originally, the tip angle of K-type files and reamers

was approximately 75 degrees plus or minus 15 degrees

This design was intended to provide cutting

efficiency without an excessively sharp transition angle.

Newer designs have different tip angles and designs

in an attempt to minimize canal alterations.

Some machined K-files incorporate a so-called

nonaggressive tip or noncutting tip to provide less dentin cutting by reducing the sharp tip
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Torsional Limits
Torsional limit is the amount of rotational torque that can be applied to a locked instrument to the point of breakage (separation). Smaller steel hand-preparation instruments (less than size 20) can withstand more rotations without breaking than Machined K-type files have different physical and

larger (greater than size 40) instruments.

working properties than ground-twisted files. Machined files are weaker, demonstrating less plastic deformation
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before failure occurs.Therefore this tendency toward

Color Coding
Color coding of file handles designates size. Color coding of the newer nontraditional instruments varies according to the manufacturer.

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Broaches

Barbed broaches are stainless steel instruments with plastic handles. The tapered-wire broach is barbed by scoring and prying a tag of metal away from the long axis of the wire. Barbs entangle and remove canal contents.

This instrument should be neither bound in the canal nor aggressively forced around a canal curvature. Either action may cause the barbs to engage the canal wall, preventing the broach from being removed intact or fracturing.

Barbed broaches should not be reused.

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Lentulo Spiral Drills

Lentulo spiral drills are twisted wire instruments used in the slow-speed handpiece . They have been used to spin pastes, sealer, cements, or calcium hydroxide into the canal. They must be used with care to avoid throwing quantities of unset material out of the apex. The drill must be rotated so that it will not screw itself into the canal; it may lock and separate.

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Engine-Driven Instruments

Rotary Instruments
Some preparation techniques require slow-speed rotary instruments to facilitate preparation, primarily in establishing straight-line access, the most common are Gates-Glidden drills and Peeso reamers

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. Table shows the comparative ISO sizes of both GatesGlidden drills and Peeso reamers.

Size

Gates- Peeso Glidden Reamer Drills s 0.4 mm 0.7 mm

No. 1

No. 2 No. 3 No. 4

0.6 mm 0.9 mm 0.8 mm 1.1 mm 1.0 mm 1.3 mm

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Gates-Glidden Drills
Gates-Glidden drills are elliptically (flame) shaped burs with a latch attachment. Gates-Glidden drills are used to open the orifice. They also achieve straight-line access by removing the dentin shelf and rapidly flaring the coronal and middle third of the canal. drills are designed to break high in the shank region. This

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Peeso Reamers Peeso reamers are also used as adjunctive devices in canal preparation. They are basically similar to GatesGlidden drills but have parallel cutting sides rather than an elliptical shape. These instruments are available with or without safe tips. Peeso reamers have been suggested as a

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Engine-Driven Nickel-Titanium Files Engine-driven nickel-titanium files allow greater control in small, curved canals. These instruments do not have a cutting end and have less tendency to transport the apical preparation. The files are available in a variety of shapes and designs

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INTRACANAL USAGE

Broaches Removal of pulp requires a broach that will not bind and yet is large enough to ensnare the tissue. Binding should be minimized because of possible breakage. Reamers and Files Two types of motion are common in root canal preparation: reaming and filing

Reaming consists of rotating the instrument clockwise and scribing an arc 2/15/13 from one cutting edge to the next.

Filing requires a series of repetitive motions. First, the instrument is advanced to its full length into the canal space using a passive twiddling (teasing without planing) motion. Next, the file is rotated (a quarter turn or more) and then withdrawn from the canal space while the tip is pushed firmly against a canal wall, much as a paintbrush is applied to a wall when

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Avoidance of Instrument Separation

Separation of hand files in the canal is prevented by regularly inspecting the instrument for defects such as (1) unwinding of the flutes (twisting clockwise and opening of the flutes), (2) roll-up of the flutes (excessive continued clockwise twisting after unwinding), (3) tip distortion (the tip has

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been bent excessively)

Rotary Instruments All of the engine-driven nickel-titanium files rely on rotational motion only and therefore have a reaming action. Avoidance of Instrument Separation

The number of canals that can be prepared with a nickeltitanium instrument varies from 4 to 16, depending on the size and curvature of the canals and pressure used with the files. When the canal is smaller and more curved, there is 2/15/13

Obturation phase

During this phase the root canals are filled with an inert material to achieve a hermetic seal as close as possible to the anatomic apex.

Instruments and materials used for obturation include (1)Gutta percha (2)Paper points (3)Root canal sealer (4)spreaders or pluggers, (5) Glick No. 1 for heat transfer and temporary placement, (6) locking cotton pliers, and (7) 5/7 plugger or pluggers used for 2/15/13 vertical condensation.

Gutta Percha

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Paper Points

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Root Canal Sealer

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Lateral Condensation The instruments used for lateral condensation are spreaders and small pluggers . They are used for condensing and adapting gutta-percha and creating space for accessory cones. They are either handled, with a shank attached to a metal handle, or finger-type, with only a plastic handle . handled instruments are stiff

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Finger spreaders and pluggers have different tips. Pluggers are flat, whereas spreaders are pointed. Finger spreaders and pluggers behave similarly and are used interchangeably in lateral condensation. Both stainless steel and nickel-titanium spreaders are available. The obvious advantage of nickel-titanium spreaders over

stainless steel spreaders is greater spreader penetration in highly curved canals.

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Vertical Condensation
In this obturation technique the filling material is alternately softened (with heat) and then vertically compacted with pluggers. The softened gutta-percha filling material is pushed into the interstices of the canal, but this technique offers less apical control of the material than lateral condensation. Vertical condensation instruments can be

divided into two categories: those that are heated to transfer heat to the guttapercha and those that condense the gutta-percha
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Obturation Phase

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STERILIZATION AND DISINFECTION Endodontic instruments are contaminated with blood, soft and hard tissue remnants, and bacteria and bacterial byproducts. Thus they must be cleaned often and disinfected during the procedure and then sterilized. Also, because the instruments may be contaminated when new, they must be sterilized before initial use.

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Central , lateral, canine.( upper, lower) Premolars, molars ( upper, lower)

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