Vital Pulp Therapy

One of Dr. Boehne’s greatest passions in endodontics is pulp biology. The pulp is an amazing tissue that has an innate capacity to repair itself after injury, provided it is free of infection and the inflammation is reversible. A significant part of Dr. Boehne’s practice has become diagnosing and treating (reversing) pulpitis. This includes resolving post operative sensitivity following composite restoration placement, pulp caps, partial and full pulpotomies. These procedures can even be successfully accomplished with carious pulp exposures. The biology has been understood for a long time, but clinical procedures with long term success rates as high as root canal therapy hadn’t been described until recently. Fortunately materials and procedures for predictable vital pulp therapy are now available, and supported with long term clinical results. The benefits of these minimally invasive procedures include sparing precious root and pericervical dentin, thus decreasing the chances of future fractures. When pulp vitality is maintained, immature roots will continue to thicken their dentinal walls and strengthen over time. Patients also save money.