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Revista Salud Uninorte
versión impresa ISSN 0120-5552versión On-line ISSN 2011-7531
Resumen
ORELLANA-CENTENO, José Eduardo y GUERRERO SOTELO, Roxana Nayeli. Pulpectomy or Pulpotomy in the treatment of primary teeth: Review. Salud, Barranquilla [online]. 2023, vol.39, n.1, pp.189-205. Epub 18-Nov-2023. ISSN 0120-5552. https://doi.org/10.14482/sun.39.01.613.007.
Objective:
To compare pulp therapy of primary teeth in patients according to the evidence in the literature.
Methodology:
Literature review in the scientific literature, in the following databases: PUBMED, MEDLINE, BVS, BBO Dentistry, IBECS and Web of Science. The descriptors selected were: pulpotomy and pulpectomy, combined in the following search strategy: (pulpotomy) AND (pulpectomy).
Results:
65 articles were found by selecting by title and abstract. After a thorough reading only 23 articles met the inclusion criteria of being a clinical trial, longitudinal study (quasi-experimental or cohort), duplicate articles and 13 that were not directly related to the topic were not excluded. The final sample totaled 7 articles for the integrative review. The evidence is limited by the number of studies that met the criteria.
Conclusions:
The contribution made on the subject is to increase knowledge regarding pulp therapies, which needs to be improved or detailed in further studies, for that reason we cannot make a definitive conclusion on which of both pulp treatments is better, but it gives us a tendency and from a clinical point view to be able to consider pulp treatments as an adequate alternative to maintain the primary tooth in the oral cavity with scientific evidence.
Palabras clave : pulpotomy; pulpectomy; dental pulp; treatment; odontology; pediatric dentistry.