| Complete series of periapical and panoramic once every 24 months. |
| Individualized radiographic exam consisting of posterior bitewings with panoramic exam or posterior bitewings and selected periapical images. |
| In this investigation 20 teeth with periapical lesions were treated. |
| Teeth number 17 and 16 were restorable, but 26 and 27 were grossly carious with associated buccal swelling and the diagnosis was periapical periodontitis. |
| If the root canals were properly sealed, no negative reactions of the periapical tissue were observed. |
| The new analysis, published in the September issue of the Journal of Endodontics, focused on patients who had to be hospitalized because of an infection of the tip of the tooth's root, called a periapical abscess. |
