ABSTRACT
Endodontics is the part of dentistry that deals with the morphology, physiology and pathology of the human dental pulp and periapical tissues. Conventional methods of diagnosing and evaluating endodontic diseases or treatment are performed with the aid of X-ray examination, which have their own limit. The new option to support these limitations will be the optical coherence tomography (OCT). The OCT can produce accurate images of minute vital structures by combining low-coherence interferometry, white-light interferometry and the principle of confocal microscopy, as discussed in Chapter 2. This chapter deals with the use of OCT in endodontics and starts with a brief background on clinical aspects of endodontics then follows to the state-of-the-art in OCT applied to endodontics.
