PAEDIATRIC DENTISTRY - 3rd Ed. (2005)

generally acceptable. Cavity design is usually a modified approximal design with bevelling of the margins to increase the amount ...

8.7.3 Stainless-steel crowns Stainless-steel crowns should be considered whenever posterior primary teeth (especially first mola ...

from the contact area, to avoid damage to the adjacent tooth. The bur should be angled away from the vertical so that a shoulder ...

Fig. 8.13 (a) Rubber dam and wedges in place, pulpotomy and coronal reduction completed. (b) Mesial and distal surfaces reduced. ...

8.7.4 Anterior teeth The treatment of decayed primary incisors depends on the stage of decay and the age and co-operation of the ...

372H Fig. 8.16 The figure shows (a) carious primary incisors that were restored (b) using strip crowns, and composite resins to ...

impaired speech development (especially anterior teeth); psychological disturbance (especially anterior teeth); anaesthetic and ...

also contraindicated. 8.8.3 Indirect pulp capping In the majority of circumstances, carious lesions can and should be fully exca ...

pulpotomy is contraindicated and extraction with the relevant essential precautions is usually preferred. The pulpotomy techniqu ...

Either no further bone loss in the furcation region or regeneration of bone in this area. 379HFigure 8.19 (e) demonstrates good ...

382H Fig. 8.18 On removal of caries an exposure of the pulp below the mesio-lingual cusp is clearly evident. 383H Fig. 8.19 (a) ...

384H Fig. 8.20 Shows perforation in the floor of the pulp chamber in a second primary molar. If this happens extraction is usual ...

386H Fig. 8.22 Internal inflammatory resorption, identified as an incidental finding on routine radiographic examination. 8.8.5 ...

Abscessed primary molars. Primary molars with radiographic evidence of furcation pathology. The steps for performing a pulpect ...

394H Fig. 8.23 A non-vital left lower primary molar. 395H Fig. 8.24 Root canal morphology of primary molars, (a) maxillary first ...

396H Fig. 8.25 The Pulpectomy Technique. 397H ...

Fig. 8.26 Non-vital pulp therapy⎯primary tooth. (a) A carious, but restorable, non-vital primary molar. (b) Caries is eliminated ...

398H Fig. 8.27 (a) Periapical radiograph showing files placed in the root canals of left lower second primary molar. (b) Root ca ...

400H Fig. 8.29 Root canal filling in an upper primary central incisor. 8.9 TREATMENT OF A CHILD WITH HIGH CARIES RATE It is abso ...

Once rampant caries is under control, then comprehensive restorative treatment can be undertaken. This should aim to retain the ...