Tag: dental pulp
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How Dental Health Reveals the Body’s Hidden History in Glen Iris.
A groundbreaking study published in the magazine Science found that one of history’s worst epidemics may have been caused by a common microbe. Researchers made this discovery using the pulp—the soft tissue located inside teeth—to identify bacteria present in the body at the time of death. The DNA extracted from ancient teeth revealed that indigenous…
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When does a tooth need Pulp Capping?
What is the Pulp? The pulp is the soft matter that exists in the center of our teeth, it contains connective tissue and cells that are responsible for the health of the tooth and repair of injury to it. Among the connective tissue cells, there are special cells called odontoblasts that form the dentin around…