Year: 2024
Type: article
Study design: Case Report
Abstract: Photodynamic therapy acts on biostimulation at the cellular level, thus accelerating tissue repair and promoting analgesia. Often with conventional treatment it is not possible to achieve success and it is necessary to use alternative therapies, photodynamic therapy is used as one of these alternative therapies, demonstrating which types of photosensitizers and light can be used and how it is possible to help combat the infection. bacterial. Photosensitizers have the function of absorbing red light in the region and producing singlet oxygen. Therefore, the objective of this work was to perform endodontic treatment on element 21 with a periapical lesion, with the aid of photodynamic therapy associated with the photosensitizer Methylene Blue.
Source: Revista de Extensão IAES.
DOI: 10.70614/349qdb82
Language: English
Subfield: Oral Surgery
Field: Dentistry
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4403510660