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Exam questionKROK 2Dentistry ยท 2021

A 15-year-old girl complains of a carious cavity in her tooth and spontaneous pain that quickly passes. The child is somatically healthy. Objectively, in tooth 36 there is a carious cavity within the parapulpar dentin, the response to a cold stimulus is painful, the pain abates in 1 2 miuntes. Probing of the cavity floor is painful in one spot. Percussion is painless. Make the provisional diagnosis:

Answer options

  1. Pulp hyperemia
  2. Acute local pulpitis
  3. Chronic deep caries
  4. Acute deep caries
  5. Acute diffuse pulpitis
Correct answer

Pulp hyperemia

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