Aim: To determine the histopathological changes of
the pulp, in which denticles are present.
Material and method: The research was made on 40 pulps after indicated tooth extraction, we made a vertical section of the teeth, removed them, and 60 extirpated pulps of teeth with an endodontic diagnosis of chronic pulpitis. According to the method of light microscopy, and by using standard differential histo-chemical coloring, results were obtained at the Institute of Pathology of the Faculty of Medicine in Skopje.
Results: The obtained results showed that in some specimens, tangential sections of denticles showed a continuous surface of loose connective tissue of the pulp, in which there was a collection of mononuclear inflammatory cells. Between the loose connective tissue of the pulp and the denticles, there is a layer of odontoblasts. In the other parts of the pulp, there are no major deviations in the cellularity, as well as in the vascular and nerve morphological compartments. The interstitium is proportional to that of relatively preserved
pulps.
Keywords: dental pulp, denticles, histopathological analysis
