Pulp (tooth)
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| Pulp (tooth) | |
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| Section of a human molar | |
| Latin | pulpa dentis |
| Gray's | subject #242 1118 |
| MeSH | Dental+pulp |
| Dorlands/Elsevier | p_41/12679455 |
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The dental pulp is the part in the center of a tooth made up of living soft tissue and cells called odontoblasts. The odontoblasts are the structural cells of the tooth, however there are also other cells in the pulp. Those include: Fibroblasts, Granulocites, Histiosites etc. It's commonly called 'the nerve', although it contains many other structures which are not nerves.
It is also the place where the blood vessels and nerve endings are located.
[edit] Clinical significance
An inflammation of a pulp it is known as pulpitis. Pulpitis can be extremely painful and in serious cases calls for the removal of the infected tooth or teeth.
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