SP-3 - Restore the Pulp-dentin Complex from the Preexisting Signaling Cells in Dental Pulp

Thursday, April 28, 2022

11:15 AM – 12:00 PM PST

Location: 224

CE: 0.75

Speaker(s)

mike sabeti, DDS, MA

Post graduade endodontics director
University of California, San Francisco
Irvine, California

Disclosure: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
Yujie Huang, D.D.S.

Resident
University of California, San Francisco
San Fransico, California

Disclosure: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Session Host(s)

Ki Hong Park, DMD, MS

Resident
University of Minnesota School of Dentistry
MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota

Disclosure: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Regenerative endodontic procedures (REP) have become increasingly popular for the treatment of teeth with necrotic pulps and immature apexes. Outcome studies of REP on these teeth compare favorably with apexification, appearing to elicit greater gains in both root width and root length. Few reports of histological outcomes of REP on these teeth have mostly shown that true regeneration of the pulp-dentin complex does not occur. Instead, a mixture of fibrous and mineralized tissue is found within the pulp space without polarization of odontoblast-like cells along the mineralized tissue. The purpose of this presentation is to present the successful use of an uninflamed residual pulp tissue to regenerate lost pulpal tissue

Learning Objectives:

List features required for pulp regeneration
Discuss histological findings and alternative treatments
Describe alternative treatments for teeth with open apexes and irreversible pulpits