title: Gaining access through a calcified pulp chamber: a clinical challenge creator: Ngeow, Dr. W.C. creator: Thong, Y.L. subject: JOURNALS subject: Online Journal of Health and Allied Sciences description: Dental pulp is prone to dystrophic mineralization; this mineralization can be so extensive that the entire root canal system is obliterated, As a result, root canal treatment can become a difficult if not impossible task, This article presents the endodontic management of a tooth with an obliterated pulp chamber and associated with a discharging sinus in a teenage patient, The role of a calcium hydroxide lining to induce mineralization and cause the obliteration of the pulpal space is also discussed. publisher: BLACKWELL SCIENCE LTD, P O BOX 88, OSNEY MEAD, OXFORD OX2 0NE, OXON, ENGLAND date: 1998-09 type: Journal (Paginated) type: PeerReviewed format: application/pdf identifier: http://cogprints.org/8183/1/Gaining%20access%20through%20a%20calcified%20pulp%20chamber%20a%20clinical%20challenge.pdf identifier: Ngeow, Dr. W.C. and Thong, Y.L. (1998) Gaining access through a calcified pulp chamber: a clinical challenge. [Journal (Paginated)] relation: http://cogprints.org/8183/