pulp cavity


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the central cavity of a tooth containing the pulp (including the root canal)

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When you suffer very severe dental pain due to infection of the pulp cavity, possibly with an abscess formation confirmed by X-ray.
They measured the lengths of the coronal pulp cavity and crown and calculated the tooth coronal index [Figure 8].
After the fact isn't a problem, because the width of the pulp cavity in the second premolar is a good gauge.
In the process the pulp cavity was exposed iatrogenically.
Knowledge of the size, morphology and disparity of the root canals of primary teeth are helpful in visualizing the pulp cavity during treatment.
In this procedure, the mixture was left in the pulp cavity for a few days, and the access cavity was sealed with provisional cement.
The tooth root is anchored entirely in alveolar bone and is composed of a root canal and pulp cavity enclosed by a layer of dentine and a thin outer layer of cementum.
Summary: TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran announced on Tuesday that it plans to establish a tooth stem cell bank to save dental pulp cavity stem cells to be used by patients in case of a broken or damaged tooth.
If a canine tooth is snapped off high enough, it can expose the pulp cavity and lead to infection.
The exclusions criteria were: carious lesions only in enamel or reaching the pulp cavity, no evidence of a crown fracture, no internal crown resorption or any other condition which would affect inclusion in the study.
Each canine tooth crown's maximum pulp cavity width (a) and maximum tooth width (b) was measured with a calibrated binocular dissecting scope, and a pulp cavity width ratio (a/b) was calculated for each specimen.