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. 1988 Jun;34:1357–1365.

Root-Canal Therapy: A Means of Treating Oral Pain and Infection

Mitchell Levine
PMCID: PMC2219109  PMID: 21253195

Abstract

What is root-canal treatment? This article shows how endodontic treatment (root-canal therapy) can preserve teeth that would otherwise be extracted, and how tooth-pulp pathology can be diagnosed. Some clinical examples illustrate how non-dental infections can masquerade as dental problems, and vice versa.

Keywords: endodontics, root-canal therapy, toothache

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