[Subtotal vital pulp extirpation using different medical preparations (experimental morphological research)]

Pulp stump and periapical tissue reaction to root canal filling with material containing calcium hydroxide and potassium nitrate after subtotal vital extirpation of the pulp was studied in 12 teeth of 6 green monkeys. Use of the material containing potassium nitrate was found to result on the 90th day of the experiment in the formation of a biologic barrier of secondary cement at the dental root apex. Such result was not achieved with calcium hydroxide-containing material. Other advantages of potassium nitrate-containing material were detected, consisting in a more rapid recovery of structural shifts in the pulp stump and periapical tissues.