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True Confessions of a glass ionomer user (page 2)By Ian Shuman, DDS
Click here for page 1 of this article True confession No.
2: My best friend's kid
Around that same time, I was a total endo head, having attained over 150
CE hours in this discipline. Needless to say, I was ready for anything
root-canal related — or so I thought. A new patient had complained of
waking with a bad taste and nausea every morning. After a thorough
intraoral exam, I discovered a draining abscess between the upper left
lateral incisor and canine. A radiograph confirmed a lesion of endodontic
origin with a shocking cause: The root had been perforated during a prior
root canal and the accessory gutta percha points were actually shoved
through the perforation into the PDL space.
True confession No. 3: The root perforation
I love children, but I hate treating them. As an armchair therapist, I
suppose this goes back to my own shadowy childhood memories of the
dentist: big needles, the "mosquito bite" of an anesthesia injection, and
the smell of burning tooth and eugenol. When I became the treating
dentist, my first pediatric patient experience was at the peds clinic in
dental school. Seeing the kid in the chair, my pulse raced and little
beads of sweat formed on my brow. The problem was, I empathized with the
little guy and didn't want to hurt him or put any fear into his memory.
This article was originally published in Dental Economics
March, 2003
Dr. Shuman lectures both nationally and internationally on
a wide variety of topics in dentistry. |
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