Alveolar bone and gingival necrosis following pulp devitalization

Abstract

Dental caries is a common disease which stands second to common cold, forms a bases for pulp involvement in extensive lesions and hence painful. Most of the general practitioners find it difficult to extirpate pulp completely and hence to face this challenge, clinicians use devitalizing agents in cases where anaesthesia is ineffective. The following series of cases describes the tissue degeneration in patients treated with pulp devitalizing agents during endodontic treatment.