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The Case of the Missing Root Tip

Case Challenge Number: 4

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This case challenge presents a patient with complications associated with the removal of a maxillary first molar. This image is one of two periapical radiographs taken at the patient’s post-surgical visit to the Department of Oral Radiology at the University of Lund, Sweden.

radiograph of the missing root tip

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