Question 26 (part 2) · LDEK · Vital pulp therapy
Choose correct statements regarding the process of apex forming due to endodontic treatment:
- A. the apexification occurs after treatment of immature teeth using vital extirpation with Ca(OH)2.
- B. the percentage of properly formed roots as a result of endodontic treatment is higher after complete than partial pulp extirpation or vital amputation.
- C. apexogenesis takes place also during the revitalization, when pulplike tissue, equivalent in function to healthy pulp, forms in canal.
- D. Hertwig's Epithelial Root Sheath does not does not take part in apexogenesis.
- E. all of the above answers are true.
Hint
Distinguish continued root development driven by living tissue (apexogenesis) from a hard-tissue barrier induced in a tooth without vital pulp.
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