Goal This guideline is intended to aid clinicians in ensuring pain relief for people who have acute apical periodontitis (AAP). Definition AAP is a periapical inflammation resulting from an ...

Radiation dose can influence the development of apical periodontitis in patients undergoing radiotherapy for cancer, according to a study in Clinical Oral Investigations (January 6, 2012). Researchers ...

Pre-hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) dental treatment is essential to prevent serious infections from oral sources during immunosuppression, in patients who undergo HSCT therapy.

A 7-year-old boy with congenital heart disease developed multiple brain abscesses caused by an infection from apical periodontitis in his baby teeth, according to a case report published on June 28 in ...

[10] IL-1β might also play a role in the initiation and up-regulation of the inflammatory response in apical periodontitis by increasing the levels of IL-6 and prostaglandin E2 production.

We harvested chronic periapical periodontitis clinical samples from 106 patients, including 50 boys and 56 girls. Age, sex, and the different pathological types of chronic periapical lesions are ...