It is important to draw attention
to the fact that this study was on young posterior
teeth and cannot be regarded as a true
direct pulp cap, but rather a partial pulpotomy.
This procedure has a number of
advantages; it reduces the potential for
introduction of dentine chips into the pulp
tissue and it enables good contact between
pulp and capping agent. It has been shown
that dentine chips inadvertently pushed
into the pulp tissue cause severe inflammatory
reaction, which can lead to pulp necrosis.
18,19 It also removes superficially
contaminated pulpal tissue.