Non Surgical Retreatment in Endodontics- A Case Study.

The current era is well refined and bears the basic knowledge regarding oral health conditions and its treatment modalities. The availability of resources on various media keeps people abreast with latest developments in health care sector. Hence a strong urge for preservation of teeth rather than its extraction prevails in the society. With the increasing number of dentists graduating every year from dental schools, it makes one strive for efficacious living. Catastrophes are inevitable in day to day practise of a general practitioner. Fractured restorations, dislodged crowns & root canal treatment failure, being the common ones encountered. But to tackle those failures is what makes a dentist rightly distinctive to their patients. Nonetheless a carious tooth involving the pulp could be retained by effective endodontic therapy without being extracted. In an attempt to save the treated teeth various interdisciplinary treatment modalities are perceived and the best of it is conveyed to the patient. The present case report describes one such scenario where the endodontically treated tooth required non-surgical endodontic retreatment due to inadequate obturation and loss of coronal seal.