Volume : 1, Issue : 6, November - 2012

Hemisection : Divide and Rule � A Case Report

Dr. Priyanka Sarangi, Dr. Veerendra Uppin, Dr. Ramesh Gowdra

Abstract :

Advances in dentistry, as well as the increased desire of patients to maintain their dentition, have lead to treatment of teeth that once would have been removed. Hemisection of a mandibular molar may be a suitable treatment option when the decay is restricted to one root and the other root is healthy.The treatment may involve combining restorative dentistry, endodontics and periodontics so that the teeth are retained in whole or in part. Such teeth can be useful as independent units of mastication or as abutments in simple fixed idges Thus tooth resection procedures are used to preserve as much tooth structure as possible rather than sacrificing the whole tooth. Hence, this article describes a simple procedure for hemisection in mandibular molar and its subsequent restoration.