Successfully treating the pulpally involved primary tooth!
Decision making, treatment planning & execution can often be challenging in pediatric dentistry. The inability of parents and young children to give an accurate pain history, the presence of multiple adjacent carious teeth, varying abilities of cooperation, all make pediatric endodontics demanding, for even the most astute clinician.
The speaker will delve on the following aspects, with the aim of simplifying pediatric endodontics and increasing treatment outcomes.
‣ When to choose selective removal of carious teeth (IPT) and when is it wiser to perform a pulpotomy procedure? A detailed discussion of both.
- Primary tooth pulpectomies, best practice.
- When is it better to extract the primary tooth and place a space maintainer?
Treatment techniques will be discussed step-by-step with clinical pictures. At the end of the presentation, participants should learn to accurately diagnose pulpal status and decide whether to do indirect pulp capping, pulpotomy, pulpectomy or extract. And how to execute each of these procedures with finesse!