%0 Journal Article
%T Paresthesia of the Mental Nerve Due to Chronic Apical Periodontitis of a Non-Vital Tooth: A Case Report
%A C. Stavrianos
%A A. Eliades
%A I. Stavrianou
%J Research Journal of Medical Sciences
%D 2012
%I 
%R 10.3923/rjmsci.2010.94.97
%X Chronic apical periodontitis of mandibular premolars and molars teeth is quite common phenomenon. In this case report, it is described an unusual case of chronic periodontitis of a right mandibular second premolar tooth in proximity to mental foramen which was the cause of a dysaesthesia in the distribution of the mental nerve. The reported symptoms of sensory disturbance disappeared 3 months after conventional endodontic treatment associated with antibiotic therapy. One year later the tooth was still asymptomatic and the resolution of mental nerve paresthesia was completed.
%U http://www.medwellonline.net/abstract/?doi=rjmsci.2010.94.97