Development of a Direct Pulp-capping Model for the Evaluation of Pulpal Wound Healing and Reparative Dentin Formation in MiceMinju Song 1, Sol Kim 1, Terresa Kim 1, Sil Park 1, 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.
