Trauma, Trickery, and Teeth That Won’t Quit
Welcome back to Pulp Fiction, Volume 6. This edition opens with Jules’ Dental Trauma Survival Guide: a streetwise manual for when crowns shatter, roots crack, and avulsions try to ruin your day.
From there, we move into data and deception: A beauty contest of pulp-capping materials, a 5-year pulpotomy trial and a trio of cases where implants are rescued, J-shaped lesions aren’t fractures, and external cervical resorption is spotted just in time.
Enjoy the ride.
A streetwise manual for when crowns shatter, roots crack, and avulsions try to ruin your day.
In August 2022, I fell of my roof at home and ruined a perfectly good body. You would have thought that many months of paralysis from the waist down would be a time for deep inner reflection and a chance to emerge reborn as a wonderful human being. Sadly, that was not the case. I got better and I am still a cynical, miserable bastard.
Here are possibly less-than-glowing reviews of some recent articles in the International Endodontic Journal.
Pulp Response to Materials Used in the Management of Deep Carious Lesions Without Pulp Exposure: A Systematic Review and Network Meta-Analysis
Fahad BaHammam, Sultan Aldakhil, Jamal Akhil, John Whitworth
Outcome Following Complete and Partial Pulpotomy in Managing Cariously Exposed Mature Permanent Molars With Symptomatic Irreversible Pulpitis: A 5-Year Follow-Up of a Randomised Clinical Trial
Ankita Ramani, Pankaj Sangwan
Endodontic education meets Instagram-worthy content. David and Richard are back with two case studies that’ll make you look twice before doom-scrolling.
As always, we’ve included a short CPD quiz at the end of this volume to help you reflect, review, and earn your points without the tedium. Whether you breeze through or need a second pass (we won’t tell), it’s a chance to sharpen your thinking and reinforce the clinical insights from this issue.
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