SP-55 - APEC Presentation: Vital Pulp Therapy in the Calcium Silicate Based-Material Era: Outcome, Quality of Life and Patients’ Satisfaction

Vital pulp therapy including pulpotomy is increasingly adopted in the management of
carious pulp exposures in children and adults, by virtue of the improved understanding of
pulp histopathology and its response to the carious insult. The advent of MTA and other
hydraulic calcium silicate based-materials has considerably improved the success rates over medium
and long term follow up and therefore renewed the interests in vital pulp therapy. This
presentation will review the available data on the clinical and histological diagnosis of
carious pulp exposures with broad spectrum of symptomatology, and will discuss the recent
evidence in support of vital pulp therapy in mature permanent teeth and clinical symptoms
indicative of irreversible pulpitis.
Patients’, clinicians ‘and scientist ‘s centered outcomes including clinical and radiographic
success, survival, pain management, patient satisfaction, quality of life improvement, and
cost effectiveness will be reviewed.