Pulp protection: treatment carried out by means of a kind of provisional filling or “filling” that seeks the conservative recovery of pulp damage that is not yet irreversible.

Pulp Capping: A medicated insulation under fillings or fillings when the pulp or “nerve” has been exposed during cavity removal, grinding a tooth, or dental trauma.

Pulpotomy: superficial partial removal of the pulp, followed by covering the wound at the entrance of the root with medicinal substances.

Pulpectomy: total removal of said pulp, whether it is vital (biopulpectomy) or gangrenous (necropulpectomy), followed by disinfection, instrumentation and filling or obturation of the root system where said pulp was located (root canal treatment). Out of habit, although improperly, root canal treatment is often called “endodontics” (whose performance implies a previous pulpectomy), and we will do so throughout this information. It can be done using different procedures (manual and/or mechanical) and different materials and sealing or filling techniques.