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Exam questionKROK 2Dentistry ยท 2016

A 25-year-old patient complains of brief pain attacks during eating sweet, hot or cold food. Objectively: on the contact surface of the 36 tooth there is a carious cavity within parapulpar dentin. The dentin is softened. Probing of the cavity is painful. Vertical and horizontal percussion is painless. Electric pulp test - 9 microamperes. What diagnosis is most likely?

Answer options

  1. Chronic deep caries
  2. Chronic median caries
  3. Chronic fibrous pulpitis
  4. Acute deep caries
  5. Acute median caries
Correct answer

Acute deep caries

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