Re: [ACEsthetics] Endo so skip if not interested

Interspersed some comments.

 

regards

bill domb

 

From: Guy Moorman

The problem would be removing debris not in the main radicular canal but I wonder at the importance of this if you totally disinfect it. 

 

Disinfection is only half the battle.  Maybe LESS than half.  The necrotic debris and bacterial/viral/fungal remnants that percolate into the dentinal tubules may be more important to the owner of the tooth, since they penetrate the entire tubule structure system, they're immunostimulatory and leech back out into the surrounding tissues and thence to the rest of the body.

 

David is also right for those of us using resin sealers.  Any oxygen producing agent destroys the ability of the resin sealer to set, thus a failure. 

 

Maybe, but has not been observed by those using ozone in reality.  Probably because it reacts so rapidly that it disappears as a reactive entity before you get your sealer mixed.

 

  If there was an effective delivery system I'd probably go to ozone and use gutta percha and ZOE. 

 

Define effective delivery system.  Real easy to put some gas in a syringe and then use a cannula to squirt it into a canal.  Or put the cannula directly on a hose coming from the generator and let the gas flow in the canal.  HealOzone even makes a kooky cannula system to go on their handpieces, but simply suctioning in the general vicinity of the tooth grabs all the gas we're pumping in. 

 

No need for the difficult-to-seal HealOzone paraphernalia.  Flow rate from the generator's around a 32nd liter per minute and is completely dwarfed by the uptake rate of even a saliva ejector, let alone the HVE.

 

Gas inhalation is simply not an issue.