Medical Hypotheses
Volume 72, Issue 2 , Pages 129-130, February 2009

Bionic dental pulp: Its potential value following root canal therapy

Department of Prosthetics, West China College of Stomatology, No. 14, 3rd Section, South Renmin Road, Chengdu, Sichuan 610041, China

Received 30 August 2008; accepted 12 September 2008. published online 05 November 2008.

Summary 

Dental pulp can provide nutrition for teeth. The teeth after root canal therapy without pulp will turn frailer because of dehydration, and it may be easily broken. Bionic dental pulp possesses similar components of the healthy dental pulp. So we put forward a hypothesis that bionic dental pulp can be filled into root canals to provide nutrition for teeth like healthy pulp. Then the life-span of teeth after root canal therapy could increase.

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PII: S0306-9877(08)00487-8

doi:10.1016/j.mehy.2008.09.029

Medical Hypotheses
Volume 72, Issue 2 , Pages 129-130, February 2009

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