1997 Volume 18 Issue 2 Pages 151-158
Abstract : It is necessary to investigate primarily the strength relation between inflammation factor and the host when we discuss the infectious disease. The effort to make sterile inside of the root canal and the application of the culture test to confirm the sterile state are very important, but they are the approach only from the factor of origin side. Namely, it is thought that the approach from the power of resistance of the host side is lacking in the former way of thinking.
In the Otani Endodontics which we practice, we exclude the inflammation bacteria and remove the organic component such as the layer of predentin by the mechanical root canal formation and we endeavor to remove the every inflammation factor in the root canal and to make sterile. However, we thought that the mechanical sterilization is impossible, so we made it our object to accomplish the state of the mechanical disinfection. Then, as for the insufficient sterilization, the root canal packing without any dead space is performed by the Obturation System which is the vertical condensation filling method and its modification and it is thought that the root canal treatment is guided to success in the result. We leave the movement of last healing to the homeostasis of a living body and it is necessary to us the view point of the way increase the power of resistance of the living body and prevent to be taken sick and guide the healing.
I will report here the practice and the results of the Otani Endodontics which has the above-mentioned conception.
