LABELLED ROOT CANAL FILLING MATERIAL

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to a labelled root canal filling material. The labelled root canal filling material according to the present disclosure is filled in a root canal to perform root canal treatment, and includes a main body having a shape corresponding to a shape of the root canal to be filled in the root canal and to be removed by a cutting tip after being inserted into the root canal; and a remaining portion integrally formed with the main body, having a mark to be distinguished from the main body, and remaining in the root canal when the main body having inserted into the root canal is removed by the cutting tip.

Claims

1. A labelled root canal filling material filled in a root canal for root canal treatment, the labelled root canal filling material comprising: a main body having a shape corresponding to a shape of the root canal to be filled in the root canal, and to be removed by a cutting tip after being inserted into the root canal; and a remaining portion integrally formed with the main body, having a mark to be distinguished from the main body, and remaining in the root canal when the main body having inserted into the root canal is removed by the cutting tip.

2. The labelled root canal filling material of claim 1, wherein the mark of the remaining portion is indicated by a color to be distinguished from a color of the main body.

3. The labelled root canal filling material of claim 1, wherein the mark of the remaining portion is indicated by a cut groove formed in a boundary portion between the main body and the remaining portion.

4. The labelled root canal filling material of claim 1, wherein the remaining portion has a cone shape whose outer diameter gradually increases from a point of a front end to a portion connected to the main body.

Description

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS

[0013] FIG. 1 is a view for describing a general root canal treatment process.

[0014] FIG. 2 is a side view of a labelled root canal filling material according to an embodiment of the present disclosure.

[0015] FIG. 3 is a view for describing a root canal treatment method using an embodiment of the present disclosure.

[0016] FIG. 4 is an enlarged view illustrating a portion IV of FIG. 3.

[0017] FIG. 5 is a view for describing advantages of an embodiment of the present disclosure.

[0018] FIG. 6 is a side view of a labelled root canal filling material according to other embodiment of the present disclosure

[0019] FIG. 7 is a view for describing advantages of other embodiment of the present disclosure.

BEST MODE

[0020] Hereinafter, a labelled root canal filling material according to an embodiment of the present disclosure will be described in detail with the attached drawings.

[0021] FIG. 2 is a side view of a labelled root canal filling material according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. FIG. 3 is a view for describing a root canal treatment method using an embodiment of the present disclosure. FIG. 4 is an enlarged view illustrating a portion IV of FIG. 3. FIG. 5 is a view for describing advantages of an embodiment of the present disclosure.

[0022] As shown in FIGS. 2 through 5, a labelled root canal filling material according to an embodiment of the present disclosure that is filled in a root canal A from which a dental pulp is removed for root canal treatment includes a main body 1 removed after being filled in the root canal A and a remaining portion 2 remaining in the root canal A unlike the main body 1.

[0023] The main body 1 that is to be removed by a cutting tip 3 after being inserted into the root canal A has a shape corresponding to a shape of the root canal A so that the main body is filled in the root canal A. The main body 1 may include a ready-made structure such as a gutta-percha point, or may be custom-made by a three-dimensional (3D) printer to match a shape of the root canal A that varies per person.

[0024] The gutta-percha point that is a dental material having a tapering shape and using gutta-percha as a main material is mainly used for root canal treatment (endodontic treatment), and the cutting tip 3 that is sharpened when being heated and becoming hot is a medical instrument used to cut the gutta-percha point.

[0025] The remaining portion 2 that remains in the root canal A when the main body 1 is removed by the cutting tip 3 after being inserted into the root canal A is integrally formed with the main body 1, and has a mark 21 to be distinguished from the main body 1.

[0026] A root canal treatment method using the present embodiment having the above configuration is as follows.

[0027] As well shown in FIG. 3, the root canal treatment method involves, (a) in a state where a dental pulp is removed from the root canal A to perform endodontic treatment, (b) inserting a labelled root canal filing material according to an embodiment of the present disclosure into the root canal A, (c) inserting the cutting tip 3 into the root canal A, (d) heating and pressing the cutting tip 3 to simultaneously cut the main body 1 of the present embodiment from the remaining portion 2 and remove the main body 1 from the root canal A, and (e) filling and solidifying a liquid filling in an empty space.

[0028] During such a filling process, a cutting operation as shown in (d) of FIG. 3 has to be performed by a highly skilled person precisely and carefully. This is because the remaining portion 2 remaining after the cutting operation as shown in FIG. 4 has to be filled without voids in a root portion Al of the root canal A.

[0029] When the root portion Al of the root canal A is not completely filled with the remaining portion 2 to form voids and the endodontic treatment is finished as shown in FIG. 5, a foreign material such as food waste is introduced into the voids later, thereby resulting in many aftereffects. However, according to the present embodiment, such problems may be fundamentally solved.

[0030] That is, as shown in FIG. 4, when the root portion Al of the root canal A is completely filled with the remaining portion 2 without voids, the mark 21 of the remaining portion 2 does not exist on the main body 1. In contrast, as shown in FIG. 5, a case where the root portion Al of the root canal A is not completely filled occurs when, in a process of cutting and hauling the main body 1 by using the cutting tip 3, a part of the remaining portion 2 is hauled along with the main body 1 and is cut along with the main body 1. Such a wrong cutting result may be identified by using the mark 21 existing on the main body 1.

[0031] Accordingly, according to the present embodiment, even when an incomplete filling state of the root canal A occurs in a procedure as shown in FIG. 5, the incomplete filling state may be identified by using the mark 21 existing on the main body 1, and thus it may be checked whether endodontic treatment is incomplete. Also, by pressing the remaining portion 2 to the root of the root canal A again, an error of an initial procedure may be corrected and proper root canal treatment may be performed.

[0032] The mark 21 of the remaining portion 2 used in the present embodiment is indicated by a color distinguished from the main body 1. It is preferable that the main body 1 includes a sub-mark 11 that extends from a portion (a boundary portion with the remaining portion 2) to be cut by the cutting tip 3 to a certain area and is indicated by a color different from that of the remaining portion 2.

[0033] Because the remaining portion 2 has a cone shape whose outer diameter gradually increases from a point of a front end to a portion connected to the main body 1, similarly to a structure of a gutta-percha point, it is preferable that the remaining portion 2 has a structure to be smoothly filled in the root portion Al of the root canal A.

[0034] A labelled root canal filling material according to another embodiment of the present disclosure will now be described with reference to FIGS. 6 and 7.

[0035] FIG. 6 is a side view of another embodiment of the present disclosure. FIG. 7 is a view for describing a use of another embodiment of the present disclosure.

[0036] As shown in FIGS. 6 and 7, according to the preset embodiment, unlike in the above embodiment, a mark 51 of a remaining portion is indicated by a cut groove shape formed in a boundary portion between a main body 6 and a remaining portion 5.

[0037] According to the present embodiment having the configuration, as shown in FIG. 7, because, after the present embodiment is inserted into a root canal, the main body 6 is cut from the remaining portion 5 by rotating the main body 6 relative to the remaining portion 5 and the remaining portion 5 remains in the root canal while filling the root canal without voids, a cutting process using a cutting tip is not required, and thus operator convenience may be improved and the precision of root canal treatment may be improved.

[0038] While various embodiments of the present disclosure have been described, the present embodiments and the drawings attached to the specification are merely provided to explain part of the technical spirit of the present disclosure and it will be understood that all modifications or alternatives easily derived by one of ordinary skill in the art from the scope of the specification and the drawings fall within the scope of the present disclosure.