Original scientific paper
Partial Pulpotomy in Crown - Fractured Incisors - Results 3 to 15 Years After Treatment
Miomir Cvek
; Department of Pedodontics, Eastman Dental Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
Abstract
The pulp exposed by a crown fracture in 178 incisors was treated with partial pulpotomy and dressing with calcium hydroxide, 1 to 984 hours after the accident. Three years after treatment, healing had taken place in 169 teeth (95%). All teeth that could be followed for a longer time, up to 15 years, showed no clinical symptoms or radiographic changes. There was a numerical but not a statistically significant difference in the frequency o f healing between teeth treated within 72 hours after the accident and those treated after a longer interval (96 and 87,5%, respectively). Neither was there any significant difference between immature and mature teeth. It was concluded that crown-fractured teeth, partial pulpotomy and dressing o f the exposed pulp with calcium hydroxide, is a safe and permanent treatment.
Keywords
calcium hydroxide; partial pulpotomy; pulp exposure
Hrčak ID:
99922
URI
Publication date:
15.9.1993.
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