Question 180 · LDEK · Primary teeth
A cooperative patient aged 5, in a good general health, having regular dental treatment and with no active caries lesions, has a spontaneous pain in tooth 85. The bleeding from the pulp is hard to arrest, the pulp reacts to stimuli, gives no response to tapping, and there is no changes in the periapical area on an x-ray. Indicate the proper treatment:
- A. devitalization and the amputation of pulp.
- B. amputation of vital pulp with a use of formocresol.
- C. amputation of vital pulp with a use of ferrum sulfate.
- D. amputation of pulp with a use of calcium hydroxide or MTA.
- E. root canal treatment.
Hint
Spontaneous pain and uncontrollable bleeding show how deep the inflammation extends; then weigh the child's favourable profile.
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