{"id":1365,"date":"2012-07-21T20:44:43","date_gmt":"2012-07-21T20:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/endojamaica.com\/?p=1365"},"modified":"2012-07-24T23:50:21","modified_gmt":"2012-07-24T23:50:21","slug":"reading-the-pulpal-floor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/endojamaica.com\/?p=1365","title":{"rendered":"Reading the pulpal floor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/endojamaica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Page12.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-1369\" title=\"'Straight line\u2019 access in tooth #1\" src=\"http:\/\/endojamaica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Page12-600x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"288\" height=\"216\" \/><\/a>Surgical operating microscope allows a clinician to see in great detail the pulpal floor of a tooth. This in turn facilitates the location of the canals. There are subtle color changes between normal healthy dentin and pathologic reparative dentin. Understanding this will help selectively removing the pathologic dentin to locate canals. Case high lighted here illustrates this phenomenon in an maxillary right third molar. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/endojamaica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Page21.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-1370\" title=\"8 year recall.\" src=\"http:\/\/endojamaica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Page21-600x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"288\" height=\"216\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Traditional access in a maxillary molar is triangular to rhomboid shape. In this particular \u00a0tooth, access is modified into a straight line as all canals are located in a straight line. Use of a microscope in this case helped save \u00a0unnecessary removal of tooth structure.<\/p>\n<p>8 years later the tooth is functioning well as an abutment for a removable partial denture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surgical operating microscope allows a clinician to see in great detail the pulpal floor of a tooth. This in turn facilitates the location of the canals. There are subtle color changes between normal healthy dentin and pathologic reparative dentin. Understanding &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/endojamaica.com\/?p=1365\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1370,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/endojamaica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1365"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/endojamaica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/endojamaica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/endojamaica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/endojamaica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1365"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/endojamaica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1373,"href":"https:\/\/endojamaica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1365\/revisions\/1373"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/endojamaica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/endojamaica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/endojamaica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/endojamaica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}