Treatment of inflammatory root resorption using mineral trioxide aggregate: A case report

• Main Authors: Roohollah Sharifi, Masoud Parirokh, Seyed Amir Razavi Satvati, Mahmoud Torabinejad
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 2014-01-01
• Series: Dental Hypotheses
• Subjects: Tooth avulsion; root resorption; mineral trioxide aggregate
• Online Access: http://www.dentalhypotheses.com/article.asp?issn=2155-8213;year=2014;volume=5;issue=4;spage=172;epage=176;aulast=Sharifi

Introduction: This report presents a case to show inflammatory root resorption can be successfully treated by using mineral trioxide aggregate (MTA). Case Report: A central maxillary incisor of an eight-year-old boy was avulsed associated with crown fracture secondary to a fall. The tooth was stored in ice. Early attempts at pulpal revascularization of the replanted tooth proved unsuccessful. To stop inflammatory root resorption, long-term calcium hydroxide therapy was employed. Despite the use of calcium hydroxide, resorption continued. Subsequent to the failure of that treatment, MTA was used as a root canal filling material. At 20-month follow-up, the tooth was asymptomatic and had clinical signs of ankylosis but external inflammatory root resorption had stopped. Discussion: MTA may be considered as an alternative option for the treatment of continuous external inflammatory root resorption.