In cases where there is a guarded prognosis, root resorption and root performation, Biodentine can also be used as a repair material. For the tooth with a deep carious lesion I evaluate the tooth. Before pulp capping it is important that the tooth be vital, asymptomatic with no history of spontaneous pain. The radiograph should show no evidence of a periapical lesion and the tooth be normal to percussion and palpation. While root canal therapy is the treatment of choice, there are times that the patient cannot afford or do
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