This book equips dental practitioners with all the information required in order to ensure successful endodontic treatment of children and adolescents. It describes pulp therapy from a holistic approach that highlights new developments in the field. Readers will find updates on the formation, structure and function of the dental pulp revealed by the latest single-cell technologies, and discussions on carious lesions and their impact on the pulp. The book examines clinical considerations in the decision to perform pulp treatment and emphasizes the need to integrate pupal diagnostics with patient-dependent factors such as behavior management and pulpal pain mechanisms. The second part of the book includes comprehensive descriptions of current treatments for each type of caries-inflicted tooth damage, from selective caries removal through direct pulp capping, pulpotomy, pulpectomy and root canal therapy for primary dentition to direct pulp capping and endodontic treatment of young permanent teeth. Traditional and new pulp-treatment materials are described as are the techniques and materials used to restore both primary and young permanent teeth. The book summarizes innovative biological approaches for pulp regeneration such as the use of stem cells. It is a must have for dental students, endodontists, pediatric dentists and general dentists with an interest in the subject.
About the Author: Anna B. Fuks has more than 50 years of experience in dentistry and qualified as a Specialist in Pediatric Dentistry in 1978. She became a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry in 1986 and was appointed Professor in the Department of Pediatric Dentistry, Hebrew University - Hadassah School of Dental Medicine in 1993; she has been Professor Emeritus since 2002, with responsibility for development of clinical research. Professor Fuks has been a board member of the International Association of Paediatric Dentistry (IAPD) since 2001 and served as the IAPD President from 2007 to 2009. She has received various awards during her career, including, in 2013, a Distinguished Service Award from the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry (AAPD). Professor Fuks was a member of the editorial board of the journal Dental Traumatology from 2006 to 2014 and has been a board member of the Journal of the Israel Dental Association since 1996 and of Pediatric Dentistry since 2011. She is the author of more than 129 articles in peer-reviewed journals, as well as 22 book chapters and edited the book "Pediatric Endodontics - Current concepts in pulp therapy for primary and young permanent teeth" published in 2016.
Moti Moskovitz gained his D.M.D in Dental Medicine in 1993 and his Ph.D. in Morphological and Developmental Science in 1996, both from the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel. He got his board certification in paediatric dentistry in Israel in 1997 and was appointed Clinical Associate Professor in Paediatric Dentistry at the Hebrew University in 2019. Professor Moskovitz serves as the director of the postgraduate program in the department of pediatric dentistry, Hadassah Medical Center, Faculty of Dental Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. He has sat on a variety of committees and is a longstanding member of the Professional and Examiners Committees for specialization in paediatric dentistry, the scientific council of The Israel Dental Association. Professor Moskovitz acts as a reviewer for a number of leading journals. He is the author of chapters in books and over sixty original articles in peer-reviewed journals and focuses on advancements in pulp therapy for primary and young permanent dentitions.
Nili Tickotsky-Moskovitz gained her D.M.D in Dental Medicine in 1997 from the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel. She has a master's degree in education from the Open University of Israel, Raanana, from 2011, and a Ph.D. in Computational Biology from Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan. received in 2021. She was an instructor in oral rehabilitation yearly courses for dental students at Hadassah Faculty of Dental Medicine, Jerusalem, Israel.
Dr. Tickotsky-Moskovitz currently works as a dentist in her private clinic and is a senior research assistant at the Sagol Neuroscience Centre at Sheba Medical Center, Tel- Hashomer, Israel. She acts as a reviewer for a number of journals, is the author of chapters in books and has published over thirty original articles in peer-reviewed dental and bioinformatics journals.
