Pulp Therapy | Queens, Brooklyn, New York

What is pulp therapy?

The pulp therapy we usually recommend for children who have had dental injuries or decayed teeth is located in the center of your child's tooth, containing connective tissues, nerves, and blood vessels. The inflammation and severe pain upon pulp damage happen when pulp is exposed. In adults, we remove the pulp. But children need to maintain the pulp to allow for proper growth of the tooth while the tooth is still in developmental stages, except in cases of extreme damage.

Signs your child needs pulp therapy

Some common signs your child will surely need pulp therapy include:

They have a throbbing toothache that doesn’t subside.

Bad toothaches that last and never go away may be from damages done to the most sensitive nerve pulp of a tooth.

Their tooth color changes.

Darkening of their tooth means nerve trauma that darkens the tooth from brown to gray.

There is swelling around the tooth.

Usually, swelling around the damaged tooth means it has become infected.

Pulp therapy procedures

There are two types of pulp treatment:

Pulpotomy

We remove the part of your child's pulp which extends above the gum line. It applies equally to injury of permanent teeth and baby teeth in relieving discomfort caused by inflamed pulp.

Pulpectomy

Formally known as pulpectomy, this is usually the most comprehensive pulp therapy we can do when evidence of damage has extended to the roots of your child's tooth. A pulpectomy involves the removal of the entire pulp from your child's tooth. We can use pulpectomy so as to save a damaged baby tooth. Although your child will ultimately lose that baby tooth, it needs to stay there until your child is ready to lose it naturally. Otherwise, your child's teeth may drift, creating space issues within his or her mouth. After pulp therapy has been synergistically performed to the injured pulp tissue of a child's tooth, we will strive to restore and strengthen it with a crown.

What are the benefits?

The pulp therapy has very serious benefits for your child:

Relieving their pain:

Pulp infection causes discomfort, swelling, and sensitivity in regard to hot-and-cold-type food. Pulp therapy enhances the healing of the involved pulp and brings comfort to your child.

Protecting their oral health:

Infected and inflamed teeth can spread their infection into your child's mouth and from there to other of his or her teeth, affecting that child's oral health quite adversely. Pulp therapy aids in the saving of the tooth, thus protecting it and ensuring it does not somehow affect any other teeth or oral tissues of your child.

Pulp therapy lets them keep their tooth:

Without pulp therapy, we might have to extract your child's damaged tooth. Once a tooth is lost, the risk of other teeth shifting or giving oral problems related to speech increases considerably. `