The UCLA School of Dentistry

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Medicine

Development of a Direct Pulp-capping Model for the Evaluation of Pulpal Wound Healing and Reparative Dentin Formation in Mice

Minju Song¹, Sol Kim¹, Terresa Kim¹, Sil Park¹, Ki-Hyuk Shin^1,2, Mo Kang^1,2, No-Hee Park^1,2,3, Reuben Kim^1,2

¹The Shapiro Family Laboratory of Viral Oncology and Aging Research, The UCLA School of Dentistry, ²UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, ³David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

We describe a step-by-step method of performing direct pulp capping on mice teeth for the evaluation of pulpal wound healing and reparative dentin formation in vivo.