Anil Tomer

This book summarizes Recent diagnostic aids in Endodontics. Careful attention to diagnostic aids and an understanding of both their usefulness and limitations is essential if they are to be employed most effectively in clinical dentistry. Equipping ones natural diagnostic instinct with knowledge of contemporary advances would ensure that the clinician chooses the best possible diagnostic tool for his tool kit to help him ad his patient along a safer and surer path of endodontic treatment.

Biomimetics provide new strategy that translates our knowledge of biological system and create new synthetic pathways to mimic biological processes. Three approaches are being used for the creation of new tissues by mimicking natural ones which includes the tissue engineering triad; the cells, mediators and a biocompatible matrix. It is a challenge to design and fabricate new biomimetic materials like enamel, dentin, cementum, pulp, bone and periodontal ligament. Focusing on to the future, we should direct our goal to regenerate the diseased and necrotic tissues rather than replacing them with some conventional replacement materials.