What would you recommend for the immediate treatment of irreversible pulpitits?
A. Once you are happy with your diagnosis and you have established the cause and the specific tooth, one should ideally aim to carry out as much of the treatment as is possible. We all know that time constraints and other factors may prevent us from doing this hence the minimum that should be achieved would be the location of pulp chamber and its associated root canal orifices. At the very least we should be aiming to place a sedative dressing eg. Ledermix in this area and arranging to see the patient for their definitive treatment as soon as possible.
