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ENDODONTICS YU JIN-HUA Associate Professor Email: jinhuayu@ucla.edu History of Endodontics History of Endodontics Oldest known root canal filling. Radiograph of skeletal remains showing maxillary incisor with bronze wire implanted in the root canal of a Nabatean warrior buried in the Negev desert 2,200 years ago (200 BC). Grossman divided the 200 years Grossman divided the 200 years (1776-1976) into four periods (1776-1976) into four periods 1776-1826, crude treatment: abscessed teeth were treated with leeches, and pulps were cauterized with red-hot wires. Root canals were being filled from apex to crown with gold foil. 1826-1876, First dental journal and first dental school: general anesthesia, rubber dam, gutta-percha points, barbed broach, tapering broaches for cleaning and enlarging root canals, intracanal antiseptics, ect. At the same time, however, pulps were still being removed by driving wooden pegs into the canal, and crowns of the teeth were also being “snipped” off at the gingival level to cure toothache. Arsenicals were still being used to devitalize pulps. 1876-1926, x-ray, local anesthetics. Dr.Walkhoff took the first dental radiograph in 1895. 1912: focal infection. 1926 to 1976, improvements in radiographs, anesthetics, and procedures as well as the introduction of new methods and agents. Calcium hydroxide made its appearance, as did ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA) for chelation. Dr. Grossman’s Root Canal Therapy introduce the stand