Cryotherapy–A Glipmse of Hope in Endodontics

Abstract

Intolerable pain is the most common reason a patient seeks endodontic therapy, hence pain management becomes a prerequisite during endodontic treatment. Premedication with prophylactic analgesics such as nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, paracetamol, or corticosteroids, use of longer-acting anesthetics, and occlusal reduction of the offending tooth are some of the strategies which have been endorsed for managing endodontic pain over the past decades. Constant evolutions in the field of endodontics require the practitioners and researchers to sort to emerging therapies that improve the patient’s comfort while being least invasive. Cryotherapy is one such evolution that is progressively becoming pervasive in the field of endodontics. Cryotherapy has already been showing promising results in other fields of dentistry. In this direction, the paper highlights a review of various scientific literature and research work done on the implementation of cryotherapy in managing post endodontic pain and its various applications in endodontics