Abstract
The author paints a picture of a half-century of endodontic practice: when diagnosis and treatment were done without benefit of an x-ray machine, when preparing an anesthetic solution was cumbersome and time consuming, when pulp was “killed” with arsenic but at times refused to die, when the 40-year-reign of the focal infection theory eliminated the teaching of endodontics at some schools or else limited treatment to anterior teeth at others. Today, the scope of endodontics has been broadened to include surgical endodontics, hemisection, intentional replantation of teeth, and endodontic implants. And the future looks promising for transplantation of natural teeth when subjected to tissue culture and for implantation of acrylic and ceramic teeth.
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