Ormco Corporation

M Reza Mehrabi

Gopikrishnan Soundararajan

Abhigyan Som

Steven Joseph Burns

Emanuele Maretto

Matteo Bosisio

Carlos Alberto Munoz

Tuyen Nguyen

A method for continuously evaluating the effectiveness of debridement of a root canal of a tooth, the tooth having an open access cavity and an apex end, includes delivering a fluid to the open access cavity of the tooth, evacuating the fluid near the apex end of the tooth such that the fluid flushes most of the root canal before being evacuated, and continuously evaluating the evacuated fluid for at least one of a presence of debris, a concentration level of the debris, or a type of the debris. An apparatus for use in debriding a root canal of a tooth includes a microcannula or a macrocannula configured to evacuate a fluid in the root canal, and a sensing mechanism fluidically coupled to the microcannula or the macrocannula, the sensing mechanism configured to continuously sense debris in the evacuated fluid in real time.

Root canal debridement effectiveness device and method

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Tujunga, CA, United States of America

M Reza Mehrabi