SP-55 APEC Presentation: Vital Pulp Therapy in the Calcium Silicate Based-material Era: Outcome, Quality of Life and Patients’ Satisfaction
CE Hours: 1.5
Description: Vital pulp therapy including pulpotomy is increasingly adopted in the management of various pulp exposures in children and adults, by virtue of the improved understanding of pulp histopathology and its response to the carious insult. The advent of MTA and other hydraulic calcium silicate based-materials has considerably improved the success rates over medium and long-term follow-up and therefore renewed the interest in vital pulp therapy. This presentation will review the available data on the clinical and histological diagnosis of various pulp exposures with a broad spectrum of symptomatology and will discuss the recent evidence in support of vital pulp therapy in mature permanent teeth and clinical symptoms indicative of irreversible pulpitis. Patients’, clinicians ‘, and scientists' centered outcomes including clinical and radiographic success, survival, pain management, patient satisfaction, quality of life improvement, and cost-effectiveness will be reviewed.
Learning Objectives:
- Describe management strategies for carious pulp exposures in children and adults based on currently available guidelines
- Define treatment consideration and case selection criteria for vital pulp therapy procedures based on possible prognostic factors
- Review the available evidence on clinicians' and patients' centred outcomes of vital pulp therapy procedures in teeth with carious pulp exposure
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Nessrin A. Taha, BDS, GradDipClinDent, DClinDent, PhD
Dr Taha is professor of Endodontics, former Vice Dean and director of postgraduate clinics at Faculty of Dentistry, Jordan University of Science and Technology. She also Seves as chairman of the scientific and examination committee for Jordan Dental Board Examination in endodontics, and a memer of the ethics committee and institutional review board at king Abdullah University Hospital.
Dr Taha obtained her speciality in Endodontics and PhD from the University of Melbourne in Australia. She is a fellow of the Royal Australasian College of dental Surgeons in both the general stream and the special fields of Endodontics and has been awarded Sutherland Prize for outstanding performance in the colleage examination in 2005. She was also awraded the victorian women dentist prize for outstanding female at the Australian Dental Council Exam.
Dr Taha has a long standing interest in clinical research on preserving pulp vitality and regenerative endodontics, She is currently running several trials on the topic for which short to medium term results have been already published. She lectured on vital pulp therapy in national and international conferences and coauthored a book chapter on the topic. She serves as an editorial board member in the International Endodontic Journal, BMC oral health and Saudi Endodontic Journal.
Speaker Disclosure
I declare that I have no proprietary, financial, or other personal interest of any nature or kind in any product, service, course, and/or company, or in any firm beneficially associated therewith, that will be discussed or considered during the proposed presentation.
