SHORT COMMUNICATION Clinical and radiographic evaluation of partial in carious exposure of permanent molars

General agreement is that pulp exposure of an immature tooth with partially developed roots requires a vital technique to enable continued normal root development. It also is universally accepted that the vitality of exposed pulps of young permanent teeth should be preserved, even when roots are completed. In all teeth, with or without dosed apices, apposition of dentin along the canal walls and pulp chamber is a continuing physiological process. Root canal treatment would stop this dentin apposition, leaving the tooth with thin dental walls, and making it more prone to fracture. 1