Tratamiento de conductos de un dens invaginatus: reporte de un caso Root Canal Therapy of a Dens Invaginatus: A Case Report

Invaginated tooth is a malformation likely resulting from a splitting of dental papilla during tooth development. Dens invaginatus are clinically important teeth due to the easy affection of the dental pulp. Invagination depth varies from a slight enlargement of the cingulum unto an extended invagination to the apex. This article reports the case of a female patient aged 23, who referred fistula with ten years of evolution in tooth 22. The clinical and radiographic diagnosis was dens in dent with necrosis and chronic suppurative periapical periodontitis. The root canal therapy and apical surgery were performed showing successfully radiographic evolution within a two-year follow-up period.