Evaluation of Clinical Protocol to Manage Teeth Reporting with Periapical Radiolucency to Dental Hospital - A Retrospective Study

The quality of the root canal treatment ensures a good outcome of endodontic treatment, when root canal fillings are performed with adequate cleaning and shaping technique and coronal restorations. Three-dimensional sealing of the root canal is essential to prevent microleakage from periapical exudate into the root canal. Inadequate seal of the root canal system can result in contamination and entry of microbes into the periapical tissues which can further lead to the development of periapical disease.Quality of the coronal restoration also play an important role in achieving an adequate seal and prevents microleakage. The current study aims at evaluating the clinical protocol to manage teeth with periapical radiolucency reporting to a dental hospital in chennai.Case records of around 86,000 patients availing treatment at our dental hospital between june 2019 and march 2020 were analyzed and the required data was extracted. A total of 482 results were extracted based on the presence of periapical lesions evaluated by viewing periapical radiographs.Data transferred to excel sheets and imported to SPSS software. Results revealed that on assessing the association between age and the periapical lesions,periapical lesion size 1-3mm and 3-5mm were more observed in 18- 30 years age group when compared to other age groups, but it was not statistically significant