Oral health plays an important role and dental issues can sometimes ruin it all. Hence dental checkups are as important as regular health checkups. Various dental treatment and procedures are ...

Trauma, rapidly progressing caries or over zealous removal of caries can result in exposure of the dental pulp. In these situations a direct pulp capping technique can be considered in an attempt to ...

A 40-year-old man presented with sensitivity in tooth #4 and discomfort during mastication. Clinical examination revealed caries on the distal wall of tooth #4, extending close to the pulp chamber.

Mineral trioxide aggregate (MTA) fails less often when used for direct pulp capping than calcium hydroxide (CaOH), a new study shows. In a large, randomized controlled trial by Thomas Hilton, DMD, a ...

While stem cells have been touted for years as a treatment that may revolutionize dental care, much about how they work and how to design treatment strategies using these cells is still unknown.

The dental pulp is the innermost part of the tooth. It is housed inside the hard chamber of the tooth which is composed of enamel and dentine. This hard casing around the pulp protects it from ...

Pulp necrosis is an irreversible condition that occurs when the soft pulp inside of a tooth dies. This is the last stage of a disease called pulpitis. There is a pulp chamber inside of each of your ...

Discoloration on the pulp inside of your teeth can occur due to tooth decay or damage. A broken tooth requires immediate dental care. Your teeth are the strongest structures in your body. But despite ...

At first, Laura Bienenfeld didn't pay much attention to the sharp pain she felt around the filling in one of her back teeth when she bit down on really hot or cold foods. Even though she's a dentist ...