Post-Endodontic Restorative Treatment, Types of Post-and-Core Systems: A Narrative Review

Coronal restorations after endodontic treatment are fundamental to achieving long-term results. There are a variety of post types used in post-endodontic restoration to improve clinical outcomes, ensuring the stability and retention of crown restorations and their resistance against fracture. This narrative review explains the restorative phase after endodontic treatment, focusing on the large variety of posts and cores, with an emphasis on tooth preservation. Metal posts and cores have been widely used, but current posts that have gained interest due to their flexibility, elasticity, and aesthetic aspect are fiber and ceramic posts. Factors such as tooth structure remaining, tooth location, and proper obturation, as well as post space, length, diameter, and ferrule design, may affect the choice of posts that will be applied after endodontic treatment.