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 ...

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 ...

Randomised controlled trials (RCTs) or retrospective non-randomised trials (RNTs) of direct pulp capping in patients comparing mineral trioxide aggregate (MTA) with calcium hydroxide (CH) were ...

PULP CAPPING — WHAT IS THE PULP OF A TOOTH? The pulp of a tooth is simply the area of the tooth where the nerve lies. Pulp capping is an affordable procedure done to prevent expensive root canal and ...

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.