Sheeza Basharat5 months ago

Vertucci's Classification

Diagrammatic representations of Vertucci's classification for root canal morphology (Vertucci et al. 1974). Type I: a single canal from pulp chamber to the canal terminus (1-1 configuration); type II: two separate canals leaving the chamber, but merging short of the canal terminus to form a single canal (2-1 configuration); type III: a single canal that divides into two and subsequently merges to exit as one (1-2-1 configuration); type IV: two distinct canals from pulp chamber to the canal terminus (2-2 configuration); type V: a single canal leaving the chamber and dividing into two separate canals at the canal terminus (1-2 configuration); type VI: two separate canals leaving the pulp chamber, merging in the body of the root, and dividing again into two distinct canals short of the canal terminus (2-1-2 configuration); type VII: a single canal that divides, merges and exits into two distinct canals short of the canal terminus (1-2-1-2 configuration); type VIII: three distinct canals from pulp chamber to the canal terminus (3-3 configuration).