title: Orascopy: a vision for the new millennium, Part 2.
abstract: The advent of orascopy as a cutting edge technique has changed the way endodontists visualize as well as think about endodontics. As practitioners begin to see and understand endodontic etiology, it will enable oral physicians to provide treatment based on visual confirmation rather than radiographic estimates. In the future, conventional orascopic endodontics will be done very much like physicians provide treatment. It will be more qualitative rather than quantitative. Dentists will not need to make measurements of canals from radiographs; they will use orascopy to instrument, irrigate, and obturate while viewing the root canal system in real time. Surgical orascopic endodontics will continue to improve surgical treatment results because enhanced visualization has enabled endodontic surgeons to identify and treat endodontic etiology.
authors.affiliation: Department of Endodontics at Northwestern University School of Dentistry in Chicago, USA. JKBN@aol.com
authors.forename: J K
authors.initials: JK
authors.lastname: Bahcall
authors.forename: J T
authors.initials: JT
authors.lastname: Barss
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D019723:Endoscopes; D004724:Endoscopy; D005260:Female; D005336:Fiber Optic Technology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008866:Microsurgery; D008875:Middle Aged; D012390:Root Canal Therapy / Q000295:instrumentation*