Indirect pulp capping in young patients: immunohistological study of pulp-dentin complex

Vol. 54 No. 4, 2013

ROMANIAN JOURNAL of MORPHOLOGY and EMBRYOLOGY

Mihaela Jana Tuculina, Mihaela Raescu, Ionela Teodora Dascalu, Mihaela Popescu, Claudia Florina Andreescu, C. Daguci, C. N. Cumpata, Vanda Roxana Nimigean, Ileana Monica Banita

Indirect capping is a complex therapy exclusively needed in deep cavities that provides, using biomaterials, a disinfection of the dentinary sore and seals the dentinary tubules, protects the pulp of physical mechanisms and chemical agents and stimulates the mechanisms that produce new dentin. Following this idea, we studied the histological changes in the dental pulp tissue and also the specific immunohistochemical response in various structures when an indirect capping technique was used. We used special histological techniques followed by classical staining or by immunohistochemical reaction in order to assess the odontoblastic, and the vascular reaction. The immunohistochemical study allows us to evaluate the changes in the pulp-dentin complex, as the result of the changes in the dentinal tubules permeability and the biological reactions at this level.

Corresponding author: Ionela Teodora Dascalu, Assistant Professor, DDS, PhD; e-mail: marceldascalu@yahoo.com

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