SURGERY - The minor surgical procedure was performed carefully using Dr Mallorie's piezosurgery unit which allows atraumatic access to the site to remove the root tip and clean out the remaining end of the tooth to facilitate the placement of filling material to seal the root tip. This is the xray taken immediately after surgery showing the shortened root tip and the filling placed into the end of the remaining root (marked in blue). Healing was uneventful and the pain the patient had been experiencing disappeared after healing.