Table 1 Treatment indications and contraindications
Treatment options | Restorative treatments (pulpotomy and filling treatment) contraindications | |
|---|---|---|
Pulpotomy treatments indications | Filling treatments indications | |
• Tooth with deep caries without pulp exposure • Carious or traumatic pulp exposure with transitory thermal and /or chemical stimulated pain • Physiologic mobility, healthy soft tissue, and no percussion sensitivity • İntact continuous ligament space and intact periapical and/or furcation bone | • Tooth with caries without pulp exposure • No spontaneous pain and/or lost the pain when the stimulus disappears. • Physiologic mobility, healthy soft tissue, and no percussion sensitivity • Intact continuous ligament space and intact periapical and/or furcation bone | • Tooth with irreversible pulpitis, determined as continuous bleeding exceeding 5 minutes, dark to purple blood color or pulp necrosis • Radiographic periapical or interradicular radiolucencies • Tooth with internal resorption/external resorption • If the patient’s age is exfoliating the tooth • When root resorption is 2/3 of root length. • If tooth infection affects general health • If tooth infection affects permanent tooth • If the bone thickness on the permanent tooth is less than 1 mm. • If there is a loss of matter in teeth that cannot be restored |