FURCATION IN PERIODONTOLOGY

TOPIC: FURCATION 

📌 POINTS TO PONDER

🔹The dimensions of furcation entrance should be taken into consideration during the selection of instruments.

🔹Furcation defects of maxillary molars are more difficult to interpret on radiographs because of the superimposition of the large palatal root.

🔹In hemisection, two-rooted molar tooth is converted into two single-rooted teeth.

🔹Furcation is the area located between individual rootcones.

🔹Furcation involvement is the extension of pocket formation into interradicular area of bone of multi-rooted tooth.

🔹Furcation entrance is the transitional area between the undivided and divided part of the root.

🔹Furcation fornix is the roof of the furcation.

🔹Degree of Separation is the angle of separation between two roots (cones).