The Pediatric and Preventive Dentistry Branch at the college of dentistry has organized recently an online continuing education course entitled (Management and replacement of permanent teeth) via Zoom program. The course included many lectures, including the treatment of incomplete permanent teeth (incomplete root apex) that have appeared recently and in which a physiological closure of the root apex has not yet occurred since this closure may take about 2-3 years after eruption and many factors that can affect the health of the dental pulp.
The lecturers identified two main conditions that affect modern permanent teeth: deep caries and traumatic injuries, often resulting in pulpal necrosis and stunted growth of immature teeth. They also addressed the topic of tissue engineering in dentistry as an application that combines engineering principles and biosciences, i.e, with the aim to repair or replace parts of whole tissues (such as bone, cartilage, blood vessels, bladder, skin, muscle, etc.) by the use of three strategies: cell injection, cell induction and cell template injection strategy.
