Restoration of Endodontically Treated Molars: Lights and Shadows of the Endocrown Approach

The aim of the restoration of extensively damaged endodontically treated teeth is ensuring teeth long-term by enhancing their biomechanical behavior deteriorated. This procedure remains a clinical challenge and a common problem encountered by dentists since the retention and the resistance still usually compromised. Thus crowns supported by post and core were required for the restoration of such teeth. Currently, with the revolution of adhesive techniques, the advent of the concept of minimally invasive dentistry as gold standard had turned upside down this concept. So endocrowns was considered as a reliable alternative esthetic and conservative facing such situations. Such ceramic restoration is monolithic and is anchored in the pulp chamber, taking benefit the micromechanical retention properties of the pulp-chamber walls and micromechanical retention of bonding.