Outcome of non-surgical root canal treatment related to periodontitis and chronic disease medication among adults in age group of 60 years or more.

Objective: To assess the impact of non-endodontic factors like periodontitis and chronic disease medication (CDM) mostly affecting elderly people's health on the outcome of non-surgical root canal treatment (NSRCT).

Background: An increasing number of elderly people with high prevalence of marginal periodontitis and CDM benefit from adequate endodontic therapy, if irreversible pulpitis or apical periodontitis occurs. Only few data exist about the relevance of those non-endodontic factors on healing of endodontic lesions in a population 60 years or more.