Vital Pulp Therapy
The procedure of placing a liner such as calcium hydroxide over a small area near the pulp in a deep cavity preparation
What is an indirect pulp cap?
Treatment of a complicated crown fracture within 24 hours.
What is direct pulp cap or partial pulpotomy and restoration?
The best way to protect permanent teeth after avulsion.
Type of resorption which stays centered in the root with radiographs taken from multiple angles.
What is internal root resorption?
Treatment for internal root resorption.
What is RCT?
The procedure of placing calcium hydroxide over a small area of exposed pulp in a deep cavity preparation.
What is a direct pulp cap?
Treatment of complicated crown fracture > 24 hours in a tooth with a closed apex.
What is RCT?
The critical dry time for an avulsed tooth regarding decision whether to reimplant or not.
What is 60 minutes?
Type of invasive resorption in the cervical area of the tooth usually requiring surgical repair and can mimic caries.
What is ECIR (external cervical invasive resorption)?
Another term for replacement root resorption.
What is ankylosis?
The procedure of removing part of the coronal pulp to preserve pulp vitality, as is sometimes done with complicated crown fractures due to trauma.
What is partial pulpotomy or Cvek pulpotomy?
Can be performed over multiple visits by pulpectomy and repeated placement of intracanal calcium hydroxide or in one visit by placement of a MTA apical plug.
What is apexification?
Best storage medium for avulsed tooth.
What is HBSS or milk?
Treatment of a horizontal root fracture in the apical third.
What is a flexible splint for 4 weeks and RCT of coronal segment if necrosis occurs.
Etiology of inflammatory root resorption.
What is pulpal necrosis exacerbating the inflammatory process of the damaged PDL cells?
The procedure of removing all of the coronal pulp to preserve vitality.
What is a pulpotomy?
Endodontic procedure which can be cell-based or cell-free and attempts to result in revascularization and an increase in length and width of the apical root end of an underdeveloped tooth root after necrosis
The process of removing both the coronal and radicular pulp as a palliative treatment.
What is pulpectomy or pulpal debridement?
Most common type of resorption occurring after avulsion of a tooth.
What is surface resorption (transient)?
Primary way to distinguish between concussion and subluxation.
The procedure of inducing root formation and apical closing via pulpotomy and maintenance of pulp vitality.
What is apexogenesis?
Treatment for an avulsed tooth with a closed apex and an extraoral dry time of less than 30 minutes.
What is immediate replantation, splinting (flexible) for 2 weeks, start RCT at 14 days after replantation, medicate with calcium hydroxide for additional 2 weeks, then obturate if no resorption observed?
The first question you should ask a parent after a child presents with dental trauma if you're the first provider.
What is "did the child lose consciousness"?
Most problematic type of resorption occurring after avulsion of a tooth.
What is inflammatory root resorption?
Prognosis for surgical treatment of Heithersay class 4 external root resorption.
What is 12% (unfavorable)?