{"database":"biostudies-other","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["17(2)"],"submitter":["Gopalakrishnan A"],"journal":["Sultan Qaboos University medical journal"],"pagination":["e238-e240"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC5488830"],"abstract":["Diagnosis and treatment planning are important for successful endodontic treatment. We report a 24-year old male who presented to the Government Dental College in Kozhikode, Kerala, India, in 2015 with pain in his right upper canine. A digital periapical radiograph indicated the presence of a supernumerary tooth superimposing the root of the canine. However, cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) confirmed that the supernumerary tooth was an illusion and that the canine root had a sharp invagination involving the labial and pulpal dentin surfaces, with evidence of periapical bone destruction. A blunt resection was performed at the level of the invagination and the resected end was filled with a dentin substitute. At a one-year follow-up, the patient was asymptomatic and the periapical region appeared to be healing well. This report highlights the importance of CBCT in visualising abnormal canine morphology, thus allowing appropriate endodontic treatment."],"repository":["biostudies-other"],"data_source":["Europe PMC"],"pubmed_authors":["Unnikrishna K","Gopalakrishnan A","Haris PS","Balan A"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Use of Cone-Beam Computed Tomography in the Diagnosis and Treatment of an Unusual Canine Abnormality.","description":"Diagnosis and treatment planning are important for successful endodontic treatment. We report a 24-year old male who presented to the Government Dental College in Kozhikode, Kerala, India, in 2015 with pain in his right upper canine. A digital periapical radiograph indicated the presence of a supernumerary tooth superimposing the root of the canine. However, cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) confirmed that the supernumerary tooth was an illusion and that the canine root had a sharp invagination involving the labial and pulpal dentin surfaces, with evidence of periapical bone destruction. A blunt resection was performed at the level of the invagination and the resected end was filled with a dentin substitute. At a one-year follow-up, the patient was asymptomatic and the periapical region appeared to be healing well. This report highlights the importance of CBCT in visualising abnormal canine morphology, thus allowing appropriate endodontic treatment.","dates":{"release":"2017-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2017 May","modification":"2019-08-04T08:16:34Z","creation":"2019-08-04T08:16:34Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC5488830","cross_references":{"DOI":["10.18295/squmj.2016.17.02.019 "]}}