Use of the dental pulp tester in veterinary dentistry.
Personal experience with a manually set electronic dental pulp tester is described. The small battery-operated hand-held unit is used in awake dogs and cats, and can rapidly indicate absence of vitality or increased or decreased responsiveness of the pulp tissue.
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Veterinary Hospital, Haarlem, The Netherlands.
Verbeek
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D000818:Animals; D002371:Cat Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis; D002415:Cats; D000075202:Contraindications; D003788:Dental Pulp Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000662:veterinary; D003791:Dental Pulp Test / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000662:veterinary*; D004283:Dog Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis; D004285:Dogs; D005188:False Negative Reactions; D005189:False Positive Reactions