The endodontist diagnosed the woman with an iatrogenic injury from the rubber dam clamp, not osteomyelitis. Furthermore, CBCT images revealed a concave outline of missing lingual cortical bone that ...

Figure 8: Rubber dam clamps should always be protected with a length of dental floss in case they either fracture, as shown here, or are dropped in an unprotected mouth. Full size image.

Vital - Rubber dam: an overview. ... In Figure 7a an orthodontic separating ligature (elastic) is passed over the tooth on a pair of rubber dam clamp forceps after placement of a sheet of dam; ...

A stainless-steel rubber dam clamp used during a root canal may have led to cortical necrosis in a healthy 22-year-old woman's mandibular tooth, according to a case report published in the Journal of ...