Endo (Mental dental) Flashcards
What type of tissue is pulp?
Loose connective tissue
What types of cells in the pulp secrete primary and secondary dentin?
Odontoblasts
What types of cells in the pulp secrete tertiary dentin?
Undifferentiatied mesenchymal cells
_____ dentin : pulpal response marked by calcification of tubules in response to slowly advancing caries or aging
Sclerotic dentin
_____ dentin: dentin reaction to minor damage
Reactionary dentin
____dentin: dentin reaction to major damage
Reparative dentin
_______: rapid response to rapidly advancing caries or other severe damage
Pulpal necrosis
What type of fiber is a large myelinated afferent nerve conveying sharp pain?
A delta
What type of fiber is a smaller unmyelinated nerve conveying dull pain?
C fiber
Reduced pain threshold , pain due to stimulus that does not normally cause a painful response
Allodynia
Heightened response to pain
Hyperalgesia
Pre auricular pain usually refers from what teeth
?
Mand molars: V3
What is the least reliable vitality test?
EPT
Thermal causes quick hypersensitive response
Caused by irritant
Reversible pulpitis
What is the periapical dx if pt has a DST?
CAA
What shape is the max incisors for access?
Triangular
What is the shape of access for mand molars?
Trapezoidal
What shape is the access of max molars?
Blunted triangle or rhombus
What is the color code for files in ascending order of diameter?
White
Yellow
Red
Blue
Green
Black
What is used to dissolve gutta percha is retreatment?
Chloroform
What is a common ingredient in sealer and gutta percha?
Zinc oxide eugenol
What is the hard tissue equivalent of I&D?
Trephination
In a apico, how much root tip is cut off?
3mm in a shallow bevel
In an apico, how much gp is removed and then retrograde sealed?
3mm
What material is used to fill the apico?
MTA
The earlier or later? into the RCT process the file breaks, the better the prognosis?
Later
A ____ perforation is common on mand molars on the distal side of the mesial root
Strip perf
What teeth are more prone to get strip perf?
Mesial root of mand molars (distal aspect)
How is a perf repaired?
MTA