A root tip resection with orthograde filling is a surgical removal of the root tip and the cleaning of the dental canal crown-wards.
Like the root treatment the RTR pursues the highest goal which is to clean the root canal.
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Actually this should happen during a root treatment. Unfortunately this is not invariably the case and thus a RTR is the result.
If the root canal is accessible from above it has to be cleaned from above.