title: One-visit versus multiple-visit endodontic therapy--a review.
abstract: A growing perception in endodontic circles is that root canal therapy requires one treatment visit only. One-visit endodontics offers many potential advantages. It is less time-consuming, resulting in less cost for the patient, potentially more profit for the dentist, less painful and less traumatic than multi-visit treatment. Conversely, if the pulp is necrotic and/or associated with periradicular disease, the root canal system is infected. In these cases, the root canal system should ideally be cleaned, an intracanal medication placed, and the canal filled at a second visit. In this paper we aim to review several aspects of one-visit versus multi-visit endodontic treatment and future perspectives in this field.
authors.affiliation: Department of Endodontics, Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran. mohammadi_zahed@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Zahed
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Mohammadi
authors.forename: Alireza
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Farhad
authors.forename: Mehdi
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tabrizizadeh
mesh_terms: D001424:Bacterial Infections / Q000628:therapy; D003788:Dental Pulp Diseases / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D009819:Office Visits / Q000639:trends*; D010483:Periapical Diseases / Q000628:therapy; D012390:Root Canal Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D019553:Tooth, Nonvital / Q000628:therapy