Gum Disease Treatment - Surgery of apicoectomy and root canal fillings

Surgery of Apicoectomy and Root Canal Fillings.
By Dr. George Meining,D.D.S.,

When a root canal filling develops a granuloma, cyst,
or some other infected area at the end of the root,
dentists will sometimes endeavor to save the tooth
by performing an operation called apicoectomy. The
area of infection seen on x-ray pictures is actually
a hole in the bone of the jaw eaten away by bacteria
and toxins. It contains pus, bacteria and infected tissue.

The apicoectomy surgery is done using a local anesthetic.
An incision is made in the gum and the dentist invades
the infected area and curettes away the diseased tissue.
In order to be able to remove all infected tissue
surrounding a tooth’s root end, it is sometimes necessary to
also remove a portion of the tooth’s root end (apex).
This is done with a surgical dental burr or drill. The
term apicoectomy was adopted because the end tip of the
root is so often removed during this procedure.

Two or three stitches are used to close the wound. These
areas experience some swelling for two or three days but
generally heal with very little discomfort. Usually new
bone immediately begins to grow and fill in the jaw at the
end of the root, and after six to 12 months one can no
longer distinguish the location of the infection sigh.
In other words, the area’s appearance is new normal.

At times when cysts or other large areas of infection are
found, dentists will elect to do the root canal treatment
and apicoectomy at the same sitting. Generally I preferred
doing both procedures simultaneously because it was much
easier to clean out the root canal that way. In addition,
we could spray disinfectant through the root canal and
vacuum the debris and infected material out from the root-
end surgical area. It was also easier to get a good dense
root canal filling as any overpacking could easily be
removed.

In my practice I did a fair number of these apicoectomy
surgeries and I cannot recall any which did not show full
healing at the end of the root of the tooth, usually within
the period of one year. We were not universally successful
with teeth treated nonsurgically.

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A couple of case history reports from my files will allow
you to see how well infections responded to the apicoectomy
procedure. The first is of a woman who came home from a trip
to Mexico with severe diarrhea and intestinal involvement.
When a leading Beverly Hills gastroenterologist was unable
to cure her intestinal infection, the patient, knowing I
was doing nutritional counseling, sought my opinion.

Oral examination didn’t indicate any obvious pathologic
conditions or tooth decay, but there were many fillings
present. Full mouth x-ray examination disclosed large abscesses
from  accessory canals on both of her upper lateral incisors
(the teeth next to the two front teeth). The original x-ray
pictures and surgery took place in March of 1955. The last
follow-up x-ray was February, 1976: 21 years later. To my
knowledge, she still has those teeth.

With hindsight and the information we have gained from
Dr. Price’s research, one can see the failure of the
physician’s treatment in this case was no doubt due to
the hidden focal infection arising from these two teeth
which had spread to her intestines. The patient’s improvement
was so dramatic she claimed I had saved her life.

Though I believe the infected teeth played a supporting role
in her troubles, we both felt that subsequent nutritional
improvements provided the leading role in her system’s
ability to cope with the root filled teeth. In spite of her
improvement, she continued to have bouts of ill health from
time to time. It is now my opinion these two root filled
teeth should be removed and that she would have been better
served had they been extracted in the beginning instead of
treated.

Another case, involving a very large cyst, is shown in the
x-ray pictures which follow. The cyst looked as though it
involved three teeth. We found that the central and lateral
incisors were infected; the cuspid tooth was normal and
healthy. You will note there are no fillings present in these
teeth, meaning the infection did not come about because of
tooth decay; it was felt the cause in this case was a high
school football mouth injury.

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Dr. George Meinig,D.D.S.,F.A.C.D. is a Founder of the Association of
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Edited and prepared by Sung Lee, alternate author