title: Mineralized deposits in pulps of incompletely developed permanent monkey incisors after pulpotomy with tungsten carbide fissure burs.
abstract: The exposed pulp of incompletely developed permanent incisors of nine monkeys were treated with partial pulpotomy with tungsten carbide fissure burs on an air turbine equipment. The pulps were capped with calcium hydroxide (Dycal) followed by insertion of conventional amalgam. The results were studied by conventional light microscopy after 1 and 6 months. Rod-like mineralized pulpal deposits were seen in five of the nine animals, in 9 out of 67 teeth, evenly distributed at the two observation times. Also the lengths of the deposits appeared similar, while the thickness had increased markedly after 6 months. After 1 month the presence of a central vessel lumen was observed in the deposits. The results seemed to indicate that the mechanism of formation was an initial pathologic mineralization of the vessel wall, and a growth of the deposits by the elaboration of fibrous, atubular dentin on to the outside of this wall.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pedodontics, University of Oslo, Norway.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Heide
authors.forename: H S
authors.initials: HS
authors.lastname: Koppang
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002126:Calcium Hydroxide / Q000009:adverse effects; D002454:Cell Differentiation; D003762:Dental Instruments / Q000009:adverse effects; D003782:Dental Pulp / Q000098:blood supply / Q000473:pathology; D003784:Dental Pulp Calcification / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D003809:Dentin, Secondary / Q000139:chemically induced; D007180:Incisor / Q000473:pathology; D008252:Macaca fascicularis; D008903:Minerals / Q000009:adverse effects; D009804:Odontoblasts; D011672:Pulpotomy / Q000009:adverse effects* / Q000295:instrumentation*; D017973:Tungsten Compounds / Q000633:toxicity; D014945:Wound Healing / Q000502:physiology
chemical_list: D008903:Minerals; D017973:Tungsten Compounds; C002802:tungsten carbide; C025702:Dycal; D002126:Calcium Hydroxide