Use of Vital Pulp Therapies in Primary Teeth with Deep Caries Lesions

Publication Date: October 1, 2017
Last Updated: March 14, 2022

Recommendations

In vital primary teeth with deep caries lesions requiring pulp therapy, is one particular therapy (IPT, DPC, pulpotomy) more successful than others?

The panel was unable to make a recommendation on superiority of any particular type of vital pulp therapy owing to lack of studies directly comparing these interventions.
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Panel noted the high success rates among IPT, DPC, and pulpotomy and recommends that the choice of pulp therapy in vital primary teeth with deep caries lesions should be based on a biologic approach.

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Overview

Title

Use of Vital Pulp Therapies in Primary Teeth with Deep Caries Lesions

Authoring Organization

American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry