However, there are biologic and percentage success comparison challenges in producing the new, smaller “x.”

Can endodontic technology bring the big “X” in 100% − X to become a much smaller “x,” ie, 100% − x? It can, and it will. What is X? It is the clinician and the host: (1) our knowledge of what to do, (2) our ability to do it, and (3) our willingness to do it matched against the host response. Therefore, endodontics has a 100% capacity for healing if the root canal system is rendered innocuous and the tooth is periodontally sound and restorable.1 But every dentist knows we experience our own individual success rates, and they are 100% − X. Nature promises that if a disease, such as endodontic disease, is eliminated, then the symptoms of the disease simultaneously cease. It is nature that sets the rules about our success. My assertion is The Endodontic Triad is Alive! ENDODONTIC CAPACITY FOR SUCCESS: THE RATIONALE FOR ENDODONTICSĮndodontics is an extension of restorative dentistry into the radicular space. My aspiration in this writing is that we all make the best decisions toward improving our performance and increasing our patients’ endodontic predictability. This is an article by a clinician, for clinicians, about clinicians.Įndodontics is about clinician decisions.

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