Three Dimensional Obturation in Endodontics

The word obturation originated in the 17th century from a Latin word “obturat” meaning Stopped up from the verb obturare. Dictionary meaning of the word obturation is to block up or obstruct. In the 1800’ s and before material ranging from tin foil gold foil cotton pellets with various medicaments wood spunk plaster of paris oxychloride of zinc oxyphosphate of zinc zinc oxide paraffin copper points and various other concoctions were used to fill the root canals