Abstract
We investigated a radiographic follow up examination and an oral examination in both 132 primary teeth and 40 immature permanent teeth which had been treated by means of pulp capping with antibacterial drugs during the period from April 1997 to June 1998 at the Pediatric Dentistry Clinic of the School of Dentistry at Matsudo, Nihon University.
The results obtained were as follows:
1. At the time of final follow up examination for each treated tooth, there was a number of teeth judged as being successful were 164 (95.3%) and 8 (4.7%) as being unsuccessful. Results we observed especially many teeth judged as being unsuccessful during the period from 18 to 28 months after treatment.
2. For the age of the subjects with unsuccessful results, children aged 3-5 years represented 77 % for the primary tooth treatment.
3. As regards with the successful cases, the ratio of the indirect pulp capping was much higher than that of the direct pulp capping.
These findings suggested that α-Tricalcium Phosphate Liner mixed antibacterial drugs was useful in the pulp capping treatment of both primary teeth and immature permanent teeth.
