Pulpotomy is a dental procedure used to save decayed, infected teeth. If you or your child has a severe cavity, plus infection in the tooth’s pulp (pulpitis), your dentist may recommend ...

When she left the Children’s Dental Group of Anaheim in California in July, 7-year-old Mimi Morales became one of 800 children this summer to receive a pulpotomy at the clinic — basically ...

All of the children had a pulpotomy, essentially a “child root canal” and were infected by water used during the procedure, said Dr. Matthew Zahn of the Orange County Health Care Agency.

Human digested dentin matrix extract (DDME) may be used as a biomaterial for dentin regeneration, making it a possible option for vital pulp therapy like pulpotomy, according to an animal study ...