In this second part of our 2-part review, we discuss recent research about pulp tests that determine the vitality of the tooth and clinically accepted pulp testers. A pain response to hot, cold or an electric pulp tester indicates the vitality of only a tooth's pulpal sensory supply; the response does not give any idea about the state of the pulp. Although the sensitivity of these tests is high...

Caries is the most common cause of pulp-periapical disease. When the pulp tissue involved in caries becomes irreversibly inflamed and progresses to necrosis, the treatment option is root canal therapy because the infected or non-infected necrotic pulp tissue in the root canal system is not accessible to the host's innate and adaptive immune defense mechanisms and antimicrobial agents. Therefore...

Exogenous ideal delivery system for biologically active molecules is under intensive investigation. In the present study it was aimed to test the availability of different calcium phosphate biomaterials (CPBs), hydroxyapatite (HA), beta tricalcium phosphate (TCP), and a combination of these (TCP+HA) as dental pulp capping systems on healing of dog dental pulp. Experimentally perforated dental p...

Tissue engineering is a growing field. In the near future, it will probably be possible to generate a complete vital tooth from a single stem cell. Pulp revascularization is dependent on the ability of residual pulp and apical and periodontal stem cells to differentiate. These cells have the ability to generate a highly vascularized and a conjunctive rich living tissue. This one is able to colo...

introduction : recent investigations have attempted to improve regenerative endodontics with the help of stem cell therapy. in vitro studies have shown the ability of different agents to stimulate the differentiation of dental pulp stem cells (dpsc) into odontoblast-like cells. a combination of dexamethasone, β-glycerophosphate and vitamin d has been proven to induce a successful differentiatio...

vital pulp therapy (vpt) is a biologic and conservative treatment modality to preserve the vitality and function of the coronal or remaining radicular pulp tissue in vital permanent teeth. a search was conducted via the cochrane database, pubmed, medline, and ovid for any articles with the criteria for “pulp-capping,” or “pulp-capping materials” and “vpt outcomes” from 1978 to mid 2014. all art...