Correlation between Clinical and Histologic Pulp Diagnoses

Introduction Clinicians routinely face conditions in which they have to decide whether the dental pulp can be saved or not. This study evaluated how reliable the clinical diagnosis of normal pulp/reversible pulpitis (savable pulp) or irreversible pulpitis (nonsavable pulp) is when compared with the histologic diagnosis. Methods The study material consisted of 95 teeth collected consecutively in a general practice over a 5-year period and...