Just Chill: Importance of Cryotherapy in Modern Endodontics
Anju Bala *
Department of Conservative Dentistry and Endodontics, PDM Dental College and Research Institute, Bahadurgarh (Haryana), India.
Rajnish K. Jain
Department of Conservative Dentistry and Endodontics, PDM Dental College and Research Institute, Bahadurgarh (Haryana), India.
Ambica Khetarpal
Department of Conservative Dentistry and Endodontics, PDM Dental College and Research Institute, Bahadurgarh (Haryana), India.
Zara Suharwardy
Department of Conservative Dentistry and Endodontics, PDM Dental College and Research Institute, Bahadurgarh (Haryana), India.
Sushma
Department of Conservative Dentistry and Endodontics, Post Graduate Institute of Dental Sciences, Rohtak (Haryana), India.
Sandeep Kumar
Indian Institute of Health Management Research, Jaipur (Rajasthan), India.
*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Abstract
The word CRYOTHERAPY is a mixture of two words, “cryos” meaning “cold” and “therapeia” meaning “cure”. It widely used in the treatment of sports injury, strains, tendonitis, surgical extractions, periradicular surgeries etc. but now-a-days it is used in endodontics to treat post endodontic pain. This review article is aimed to summarise its historical development, importance, mechanism of action and uses in contemporary era with its limitations. A comprehensive data analysis was done using very popular data base “Google Scholar” only for the year 2024-25. After detailed inspection, conclusion can be drawn that cryotherapy is very beneficial, easy to apply, cost-effective, reduces usage of analgesics and antibiotics and enhances anaesthetic effect and healing response. Although cryotherapy application has some limitations but still it is gaining popularity amongst endodontists.
Keywords: Cryotherapy, chilled saline and endodontics, cryotherapy and root canal treatment