Cavities.Cavities are the most common cause of pulpitis. These are holes in your teeth that are also called tooth decay.Cavitiesare caused by not brushing your teeth properly, bacteria, and lots of sugar. Tooth decay can spread deep into your teeth and affect your dental pulp and roots. De...
The major diagnostic factor followed in deciding the status of pulpitis as, reversible or irreversible, is the severity and intensity of the pain. Traditionally, a tooth diagnosed as irreversible pulpitis results in the removal of coronal and radicular pulp resulting in the non-vitality of the ...
Toothache occurs from inflammation of the central portion of the tooth called pulp. The pulp contains nerve endings that are very sensitive to pain. Inflammation of the pulp, or pulpitis, may be caused bydental cavities, trauma, and infection. Referred pain from the jaw may cause you to have...
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To date, the differential diagnosis has aspecial place in dentistry, in our case, a patient with symptoms of pulpitis identified as acutenecrotizing ulcerative gingivitis. Therefore accurate differential diagnosis is possible to establish atimely and correct diagnosis, which in its turn made it ...
The involved portion of the tooth is relatively distant from its nerve. – The closer the deepest aspect of a void created by the loss of a piece of tooth is to its nerve, the more likely it is that the tooth will experience some level of sensitivity. Responses to hot, cold or air ...
This case report is aimed at evaluating the success rate of partial pulpotomy in permanent molars with symptoms indicating irreversible pulpitis using MTA and presenting with extremely deep carious lesions over four years of follow-up. All patients came with spontaneous and severe ...
Aim To prospectively investigate the outcome of partial pulpotomy after 1 year, using a hydraulic calcium silicate cement (HCSC) on symptomatic cariously exposed pulps in adult teeth. To compare the traditional American Association of Endodontists (AAE) pulpitis classification with the recently ...