Flashcards in Pulp therapy Deck (16)
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Aims and indications fo pulp therapy?
Maintain a disease free primary tooth until exfoliation
Maintain intact arch
Avoid physiological and psychological trauma of extraction
If extraction Control-indicated
No permanent successor tooth
Space maintenance
Cooperative child/carer
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Contra-indications of pulp therapy
uncooperative
Child at risk f infection
Neglected dentition
Severe acute infection
Unrestorable crown
Root caries
>2/3 root resorption (near to exfoliation)
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3 approaches to pulpotomy
Preserving radical pulp in a healthy state
Rendering radical pulp inert
Encouraging tissue regeneration and healing of radicular pulp at site of amputation
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Describe the ideal pulp therapy
Doesn't harm pulp or surrounding tissue
No interference with physiological root resporption
Promtote healing of radicular pulp
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Aetiology of pulp disease
Microbial infection - more rapid progression in primary
Marginal ridge collapse
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How can pulp therapy be characterised?
Vital vs non vital pulp
Non-vital pulp = pulpectomy only
Vital = indirect pulp therapy
pulpotomy
Desensiting pulpotomy
Pulpecotmy
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When is indirect pulp therapy used?
Deep dentinal caries, no symptoms/nocturnal pain (no irreversible inflammation), no pulp exposure, walls clean but stained cavity floor (if removed would expose pulp)
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What is pulpotomy?
Removing irreversibly inflamed pulp and leaving normal/reversible inflammation
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How do you know if the pulp is irreversibly inflamed?
Lots of bleeding that doesn't stop in normal time after ferric sulphate adminsteraion
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Management if arrested bleeding in pulpotomy
Ferric sulphate for 15 seconds
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Management of copious bleeding in pulp?
2 applications fo ferric sulphate or pulpectomy
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Describe ferric sulphate pulpotomy?
Prepare cavity and remove caries into pulp
Apply ferric sulphate 15% for 15% to stop bleeding
GIc and pre-formed metal crown
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When to use desisting pulp therapy?
When no LA or LA not working
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Describe desensitising pulp therapy
expose pulp until sensitive = dress with ledermix
second visit = ferric sulphate pulpotomy
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When is non-vital pulp therapy used?
Pulp is necrotic = no blood
or irrveeribsle pulpitis - lots of blood, not stopping
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