Single-visit root canal treatment (RCT)

With the advent of technological advancement and emergence of new gadgets, evidence-based dentistry and more scientific deliberations and the concept of maximum dentistry in minimum visits led to a resurgent impetus towards laying down of various protocols to enable dentists to venture into single visit endodontics with reasonable level of outcome.Though Single visit versus Multiple visit root canal treatment has been the subject of long-standing debate in the endodontic community, When the clinicians are faced with choices of which treatment should be offered to patients, the central issues that should be considered are effectiveness, complication, cost and probably patient /operator satisfactionSo, with recent advances single visit endodontics has been shown to be an effective treatment modality, which compared to multiple visit therapy and it does not deviate from achieving the objectives of proper biomechanical preparation, debridement, shaping, disinfection and 3 dimensional obturation of canal system and is more beneficial to the patient and dentist provided there is careful case selection and adherence to standard endodontic principles.