title: Root canal irrigants: a review of their interactions, benefits, and limitations.
abstract: Endodontic treatment success depends on a combination of appropriate instrumentation, effective irrigation and decontamination of root canal spaces to apices, and obturation of the root canals. Irrigation of the root canal is paramount in determining periapical tissue healing. This article reviews presently available root canal irrigants, their interactions, advantages, and limitations. For this review, the authors performed a Medline search for all English language articles published through January 2014 with "root canal irrigants" and "endodontic irrigants" as keywords.
authors.affiliation: Reader, Department of Conservative Dentistry and Endodontics, Institute of Dental Sciences, Siksha 'O' Anusandhan University, Odisha, India.
authors.forename: Amit
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Jena
authors.affiliation: Post-Graduate Student, Department of Conservative Dentistry and Endodontics, Institute of Dental Sciences, Siksha 'O' Anusandhan University, Odisha, India.
authors.forename: Sanjit Kumar
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Sahoo
authors.affiliation: Reader, Department of Conservative Dentistry and Endodontics, Institute of Dental Sciences, Siksha 'O' Anusandhan University, Odisha, India.
authors.forename: Shashirekha
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Govind
mesh_terms: D003666:Decontamination; D004708:Endodontics; D006801:Humans; D012388:Root Canal Irrigants / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D007507:Therapeutic Irrigation
chemical_list: D012388:Root Canal Irrigants