stepwise excavation: a conservative community-based dental treatment of deep caries to inhibit pulpal exposure

Stepwise Excavation: A Conservative Community-Based Dental Treatment of Deep Caries to Inhibit Pulpal Exposure

Stepwise excavation is an old concept but has become a research subject more, in recent years. It is a conservative approach to treat deep dental caries lesions where the exposure of the pulp is probable. In case of pulpal exposure, Root Canal Therapy (RCT) is the routine treatment method. However, RCT is an expensive treatment, especially in countries like Iran where most of the dental treatme...

Relation between pulpal neuropeptides and dental caries

INTRODUCTION Dental pulp has neural fibers that produce neuropeptides like Substance P (SP) and calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP). The inflammation of dental pulp can lead to an increase amount of SP and CGRP release, especially in symptomatic irreversible pulpitis. Therefore, it can be assumed that neuropeptides have some role in the progression of inflammation of the dental pulp. The aim...

relation between pulpal neuropeptides and dental caries

introduction: dental pulp has neural fibers that produce neuropeptides like substance p (sp) and calcitonin gene-related peptide (cgrp). the inflammation of dental pulp can lead to an increase amount of sp and cgrp release, especially in symptomatic irreversible pulpitis. therefore, it can be assumed that neuropeptides have some role in the progression of inflammation of the dental pulp. the ai...

Exposure to metal ions and susceptibility to dental caries.

Results from several epidemiologic studies have shown that there are large differences in the prevalence of dental caries from one region to another within the United States as well as in other countries. It has been postulated that the observed differences may be attributed in part at least to exposure to trace elements such as selenium, vanadium, molybdenum, strontium, and lead. Although data...

Clinical comparison of mechanical and chemomechanical methods in removing deep dentinal caries

Clinical comparison of mechanical and chemomechanical methods in removing deep dentinal caries Dr. F. Darabi* - Dr. N. Kia Rostami** *- Assistant Professor of Operative Dentistry Dept. - Faculty of Dentistry - Guilan University of Medical Sciences. ** - Dentist. Background and Aim: The use of CarisolvTM decreases unnecessary removal of sound dental tissue and reduces the possibility of pulpal e...

Preventing dental caries through community water fluoridation.