title: Pulp obliteration: a histological study.
abstract: Pulp obliteration is a very rare occurrence that is most frequently caused by trauma. A 58-yr-old female patient had a generalized pulp obliteration that involved all maxillary and mandibular teeth. One tooth was extracted due to an extensive carious lesion and it was processed by a cutting-grinding technique. It was possible to observe the complete obliteration of the pulp chamber, which was filled in part by reparative dentin and in part by a calcified tissue with a concentric layers structure with no tubular pattern. The root canals were almost completely obliterated by an amorphous calcified material.
authors.affiliation: Oral Pathology, Department of Dentistry, University of Chieti, Italy.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Piattelli
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Trisi
mesh_terms: D003784:Dental Pulp Calcification / Q000473:pathology*; D003809:Dentin, Secondary / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged