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Exam questionKROK 2Dentistry ยท 2009

A 12-year-old child complains about bleeding from the tooth socket during eating and tooth brushing. The tooth has hurt him before. Objectively: the 36 tooth has a deep cavity communicating with the tooth cavity and filled with red excrescences. Probing causes pain and slight hemorrhage; percussion is painless, thermal stimuli cause mild pain. What is your provisional diagnosis?

Answer options

  1. Chronic papillitis
  2. Gingival polyp
  3. Chronic granulating pulpitis
  4. Chronic hypertrophic pulpitis
  5. Chronic simple pulpitis
Correct answer

Chronic hypertrophic pulpitis

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