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AAE and AAPD Symposium Overview: Emerging Science
in Pulp Therapy—New Insights Into Dilemmas and
Controversies
Evidence-based best practices are yet to be established for the
management ofcaries-associated pulpal disease in young permanent
and primary teeth. Controversies still remain among practitioners,
including pediatric dentists and endodontists, as to which treatment
modalities aremost predictable in the contemporary practice of
pulp therapy. Many clinicians still remain divided as to whether indirect
pulp capping is a viable procedure in primary and young permanent
teeth,or whether formocresol remains the medicament of choice for
pulpotomies in primary teeth. To begin the process of establishing evidence-
based best practices in pulpal therapy as well as highlightsome of
the future directions in pulp therapy including pulp regeneration with
stem cells and root canal revascularization, the American Academy of
Pediatric Dentistry (AAPD) and the AmericanAssociation of Endodontists
(AAE) jointly sponsored “Emerging Science in Pulp Therapy: New
Insights into Dilemmas and Controversies.” The symposium was held on
November 2–3, 2007, in Chicago, Illinois.The convening of this pulp therapy symposium was heralded as a
major event in that it was a first time conjoint symposium sponsored by
these 2 national specialty organizations. The genesis of theidea for joint
sponsorship was the need to examine the shared procedures performed
by the 2 specialties. With specialty organizations routinely producing
evidence-based practice guidelines thatprovide the foundation for
treatments performed, it is critical that when 2 specialties perform the
same or similar treatments, their guidelines are parallel in language and
in content. Without theseguidelines, confusion and uncertainty will
result in clinical practice when a rational treatment plan is required to
manage a specific pathologic entity such as caries.
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