Professional paper
Clinical importance of hypercementosis
Ruža Sarkotić
; Odjel za opću stomatologiju OOUR stomatološke klinike KBC-a u Zagrebu, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Jozo Šutalo
; School of Dental Medicine, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
A number of clinical cases of roentgenologically ascertained tooth root
hypercementosis is described. Although hypercementosis is not very common, a clinician should be made familiar with it because of a variety of its possible effects on therapeutic procedures and on clinical prognosis. Hypercementosis may be desirable in case when increased amounts of a newly formed cementum improve the periodontal ligament firmness, but also undesirable when impairing tooth eruption or causing difficulties in tooth extraction.
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Hrčak ID:
105142
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Publication date:
15.12.1987.
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