🌟 PERIO-ENDO RELATIONSHIP

📌 POINTS TO PONDER

🔹Periodontal probing, pulp vitality test and radiographs are the cornerstones for diagnosis and classifying endo-perio lesions.

🔹When fistula with gutta percha point is traced to radiograph apex, then endodontic etiology can be considered.

🔹When fistula with gutta percha point is traced to midroot, then periodontal etiology/ pulpal necrosis in lateral canal can be considered.

🔹A long, narrow pocket in a single tooth in a mouth generally free from periodontal disease is usually associated with primary pulpal disease. 

🔹A pocket that does not extend to the apical one third of the root in a periodontally diseased mouth indicates primary periodontal origin.