Obturator (dentistry)

In dentistry, an obturator (lat .: obturare clogging, sealing) is understood to mean a device for closing jaw defects that can not be surgically closed temporarily or permanently and, on the other hand, a special locking pin for root canal treatment .

Palate obturator

Obturator for a cleft lip and palate

Cover the defect after a maxilla - resection one is Gaumenobturator used the oral cavity opposite the antrum and / or the sinuses closes and seals, so that food can not penetrate these body cavities and speaking and breathing is improved. It is seldom used for cleft lip and palate . The obturator can be used alone or as an additional component of a prosthesis to replace teeth , which thereby becomes a defect prosthesis.

Cyst obturator

After an operation on a large cyst in the jaw area, which is usually located in the ascending branch of the lower jaw , an obturator is inserted to prevent the wound from closing too early. The purpose is to give the slowly growing bone tissue time to form new bone and at the same time to seal the cyst cavity from the oral cavity. The plastic lying in the cyst cavity is gradually removed - in accordance with the bone growth - and the obturator is increasingly made smaller.

Root canal obturator

An obturator is used to fill the root canal in order to seal the root canal . Systems such as Soft-Core / One-Step, HEROfill, Densfill and Thermafil are on the market for this purpose. The latter is, for example, an obturator made of special plastic and coated with α-phase gutta-percha .

Individual evidence

↑ Peter Proff, Alfred Renk: To the history of the palate obturators. An 18th century case. In: Dental communications. Volume 77, 1987, pp. 875-877.
^ W. von Brunn: Brief history of surgery . Springer-Verlag, March 8, 2013, ISBN 978-3-642-99580-4 , p. 212–.
↑ Norbert Schwenzer: Dental surgery: 35 tables . Georg Thieme Verlag, 2000, ISBN 978-3-13-116963-1 , pp. 94-95.
↑ Christina von Schroeter, Root Canal Obturation with the Thermafil Technique - An Overview , Endodontie (2009) 18 (2), pp. 119–130

[1] Peter Proff, Alfred Renk: To the history of the palate obturators. An 18th century case. In: Dental communications. Volume 77, 1987, pp. 875-877.

[2] W. von Brunn: Brief history of surgery . Springer-Verlag, March 8, 2013, ISBN 978-3-642-99580-4 , p. 212–.

[3] Norbert Schwenzer: Dental surgery: 35 tables . Georg Thieme Verlag, 2000, ISBN 978-3-13-116963-1 , pp. 94-95.

[4] Christina von Schroeter, Root Canal Obturation with the Thermafil Technique - An Overview , Endodontie (2009) 18 (2), pp. 119–130