Use:
The most common use of is for primary teeth. These teeth are very easily affected by caries because of their large pulp. Bacteria can easily reach the pulp and cause inflammation and infection. Once this happens, primary teeth cannot be treated the same way as the adult. This is because deciduous teeth have numerous functions in the mouth and have to stay there until the time when they will be replaced with adult ones. Also, the roots of baby teeth start erupting at one point, so all of the materials used have to be biocompatible in order to prevent damage to the gem of the permanent tooth. The only way to do it is to perform a pulpotomy. All of the medicaments used for this procedure are perfectly safe and serve as a therapeutic dressing that protects the remaining pulp tissue.
Other uses include a tooth that has a perfectly healthy surrounding periodontal tissue, artificially exposed pulp, teeth with a root length of 2/3 if the pulp communication is minimal and not infected and more.