Uncertainties and decision making in endodontics

Abstract

Headline This paper is concerned with uncertainties and decision making in endodontics. Uncertainties are of different kinds; risk, fundamental uncertainty, ignorance and indeterminacy. The various types of uncertainties that are involved in the process of clinical making decisions are briefly reviewed in case of an injured vital pulp, a necrotic pulp with apical periodontitis and finally a root-filled tooth with a persistent apical lesion.