Endodontic therapy for mental nerve neuropathy in systemic cancer patients

Among the common factors causing mental nerveneuropathies, the metastatic malignancies bear the most dramatic implications for the patient. The presence of a mental neuropathy not of traumatic origin should be an alam signal for the presence of such metastases. A local inflammatory process from pulpal origin may combine with the metastatic lesion to produce the neuropathy. In the cases described, endodontic therapy was performed in teeth with necrotic pulps of cancer patients presenting with mental nerve paresthesia. Consequently, a partial relief of symptoms occurred leading to improvement of the patients' quality of life.