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AN OVERVIEW OF PROCEDURE PULPECTOMY FOR PRIMARY MOLAR TEETH

EMAD A AL-BADAWI*, NAJEM AEGAB TURKI AL-OTAIBI, MOHAMMED MANA RASHED ALMUTAIRI, WALEED SAAD ALOTAIBI

Pulpectomy is used as a treatment method for irreversibly damaged pulp tissue, and also serves as an option to prevent extraction of the tooth. In this review we discuss the background of the pulpectomy and materials used in it. Targeted detailed search was conducted through databases; PubMed/Midline, and Embase, for these articles disusing the pulpectomy for primary molar teeth, with human subjects published up to end of 2019. Pulpectomy includes the chemical substance and also mechanical elimination of lethal coronal as well as radicular pulp tissue complied with by root canal filling. It is a procedure to preserve the baby teeth until the eruption of permanent dentition together with protecting its esthetics as well as masticatory feature. This can additionally maintain the arc size, prevent hazardous tongue habits, and also transformed speech. Pulpectomy is a demanding treatment for kids and is complicated due to its anatomical intricacies that are not exist in permanent teeth. The very first treatment choice for the young client is whether to keep or extract these teeth.

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