Conservative Management of Separated Endodontic Instruments in the Root Canal – A Case Series

Root canal treatment is one of the most common procedures to be performed in all dental clinics nowadays.The popularity of the root canal treatment is attributed to the patients' awareness toward the dental treatment.Separation of the endodontic instrument is one of the common untoward incidents faced by the clinicians.Separated endodontic instrument can worsen the prognosis of root canal treatment by impeding the access beyond the broken instrument.This case series describes the conservative approach (bypass technique) to deal with broken instruments with minimum armamentaria.Furthermore, the bypassing technique does not carry much risk since it does not mandates significant removal of dentin structure.