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What does periapical mean?

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Adjective
  1. Surrounding an apex (especially of a tooth)
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Individualized radiographic exam consisting of posterior bitewings with panoramic exam or posterior bitewings and selected periapical images.
Teeth number 17 and 16 were restorable, but 26 and 27 were grossly carious with associated buccal swelling and the diagnosis was periapical periodontitis.
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.
Contact with periapical tissue may occur in the event of accidental overfilling.
If the root canals were properly sealed, no negative reactions of the periapical tissue were observed.
Complete series of periapical and panoramic once every 24 months.

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