How Our Doctors Treat Recurrent Infection
What Is an Apicoectomy?
Sometimes, the best way to surgically re-treat a failing root canal is to approach it through the root instead of the crown. This approach is apical surgery or apicoectomy (surgery on the apex, or tip, of the root).
Apical surgery, or microsurgery, may be indicated in the case of persistent, well-established infections or cysts, cases in which re-treatment may have undesirable consequences, or infected canal spaces accessible only through surgery.
