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Inflammation of the DENTAL PULP, usually due to bacterial infection in dental caries, tooth fracture, or other conditions causing exposure of the pulp to bacterial invasion. Chemical irritants, thermal factors, hyperemic changes, and other factors may also cause pulpitis.
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- Inflammation, Endodontic
- Endodontic Inflammation
- Endodontic Inflammations
- Inflammations, Endodontic
- Pulpitides
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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Pulpitis. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D011671. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D011671
- Pulpitis. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulpitis
- Pulpitis. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q932843