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MASTERCLASS
DR PHIL TOMSON
Date : 28/01/2024 (Sunday)
Venue : Meeting Room 305, Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre
Time : 1430 – 1700
Endodontic Masterclass
The Pulp, the Root Flling of the Future!?! Biological and Clinical Aspects
of Vital Pulp Therapy
Dentists are not recognised as pioneers of tissue regeneration but perhaps they should
be as they have been using tissue regenerative techniques for almost a hundred
years. Our biological understanding of healing of the dental pulp is increasing at an
exponential rate. Vital pulp therapies (VPTs) offer a minimally invasive approach to
the management of pulpal disease preventing the need for more invasive techniques
such as root canal therapy, which can advance the tooth along the restorative cycle.
VPTs have proven to be much more predictable than dogma may suggest, even in
what are considered the most terminal situations such as irreversible pulpitis. Careful
management of the injured or exposed pulp can result in a predictable successful
outcome preserving the defence system of the tooth.
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