The clinical and histological evaluation of cresatin with calcium hydroxide on the human dental pulp.

Metacresylacetate with calcium hydroxide in a methylcellulose base produces clinically and radiographically successful pulpotomies, when performed on sound primary teeth. Under sterile conditions, with proper surgical and restorative technique, pulp tissue will heal with metacresylacetate with calcium hydroxide-methylcellulose. The dental pulp will form on osteodentin bridge and the pulp adjoining the bridge will remain histologically viable and free of inflammation. Methylcellulose with sterile distilled water does not produce as favorable a histological reaction as metacresylacetate with calcium hydroxide-methylcellulose. No dentinal bridging was in evidence and there were present in the radicular pulp varying degrees of inflammation.