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The Dental Pulp Cap and Pulpotomy: Healing Procedures or Just Plain Magic?By Paul J. Flaer, Ana Maria Mejia, Seng Kyu Choi, Claudia Montoya, Reema Kanbaragh, Carlos Gonzalez, Astrid Cardenas, Jude St Charles
Abstract: Mesenchymal stem cells in the dental pulp are multi-potent progenitors with the ability to differentiate into many different cell types including odontoblasts that function in the formation of reparative (secondary) dentin. However, reparative dentin is a two-edged sword to the pulp; it is necessary to ‘wall-off’ a pulp exposure or pulpotomy, but at the same time, it compresses the pulp in its finite living space causing inflammatory and necrotic changes. …
Published in Research and Reviews: A Journal of Dentistry · Vol. 6, Issue 1, 2015 · pp. 8–13 Read article →