Putative Stem Cells in Human Dental Pulp with Irreversible Pulpitis: An Exploratory Study

John T. Wright, Shaoping Zhang, Sompop Bencharit, Fabricio B. Teixeira, John S. Preisser, Jian Pan, Eric T. Everett, Zhengyan Wang
2010
Although human dental pulp stem cells isolated from healthy teeth have been extensively characterized, it is unknown whether stem cells also exist in clinically compromised teeth with irreversible pulpitis. Here we explored whether cells retrieved from clinically compromised dental pulp have stem cell-like properties.
doi:10.17615/v75t-ws25 fatcat:aw7bssk7w5elvdnzt3uzd363ka