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
- Pulp hyperemia
- Acute local pulpitis
- Chronic deep caries
- Acute deep caries
- Acute diffuse pulpitis
Correct answer
Pulp hyperemia
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