Lecture Description

Indications and techniques for indirect pulp treatment, direct pulp capping, pulpotomy, and LSTR for primary teeth will be presented. New vital pulp therapy successful treatments for permanent teeth with spontaneous pain and irreversible pulpitis will be presented. The attendee should be able to diagnose and treat their pediatric and adult patients. This will be an evidence-based presentation.

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Course Objectives

As a result of attending this lecture you will be able to:

• Understand pulp pathology of primary and permanent teeth.

• Choose the correct pulpal treatment.

• Discuss the evidence-based recommendations for pulp therapies.

Instructor

Dr. Coll is a Clinical Professor at the University of Maryland Dental School. He was in full time private pediatric dental practice in York, PA, for 39 years. Dr Coll is a Section-Editor on pulp therapy for Pediatric Dentistry and has over 20 pulp therapy articles published in peer-reviewed journals and written four textbook chapters on pulp therapy. He chairs an AAPD workgroup that published vital and non-vital primary tooth pulp therapy guidelines and is finishing a permanent tooth vital pulp guideline with the AAE.