Question 206 · LDEK · Primary teeth
In a 5-year-old child, secondary caries around huge mesio-occlusal restoration in tooth 84 was found. On an x-ray an inflammatory change in the root furcation and an internal resorption lesion in one of the roots is found. The treatment of choice will be:
- A. leaving the tooth pulp chamber open till physiological exfoliation.
- B. formocresol pulpotomy.
- C. calcium hydroxide pulpotomy.
- D. extraction.
- E. pulpectomy.
Hint
Consider what furcal radiolucency plus radiographically visible internal resorption mean for the prognosis of any pulp therapy in a primary molar.
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