Qualidade dos tratamentos endodônticos efetuados na Clínica Universitária da Universidade Católica Portuguesa

: anos letivos de 2009/2010 e 2010/2011

Abstract

Endodontics tends to be a specialized area which requires detailed knowledge of dental anatomy, as well as of the neighbouring structures, most of them only visualized by imagiologic means. The complete filling of the radicular canal with inert material and the creation of an apical hermetic sealing is the main goal of endodontic treatment. The periapical film analysis in clinical practice is essential, as it is through this auxiliary examination that we can evaluate the quality of the filling and the peculiarities of bad instrumentation cases, when accidents, such as perforations or the fracture of an instrument happens. The aim of this study is to evaluate the endodontic treatments performed by students from the Portuguese Catholic University Dental School, between years 2007 and 2010, analyzing the fillings by digital post. operative examination. The percentage of suitable endodontic treatments was 67.6%. In 8.1% of the events it occurred underfilling and overfilling in 12.6% of them. In 11.6% of the cases there was a weak lateral condensation with presence of vacuoles. There was no broken instruments in this study. The results revealed no statistically significant between the type of teeth and the quality or year of treatment. In the future, in order to further investigate the success rate of the endodontic treatments fulfilled in the UCP clinic, we think that the “follow up” of all patients must be done until at least one year, in order to control the evolution of the treatment

Date of Award	24 Oct 2014
Original language	Portuguese
Awarding Institution	Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Supervisor	Miguel André Duarte Martins (Supervisor) & Miguel Cardoso (Co-Supervisor)