UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center 1 article published in JoVE Medicine Development of a Direct Pulp-capping Model for the Evaluation of Pulpal Wound Healing and Reparative Dentin Formation in Mice Minju Song1, Sol Kim1, Terresa Kim1, Sil Park1, Ki-Hyuk Shin1,2, Mo Kang1,2, No-Hee Park1,2,3, Reuben Kim1,2 1The Shapiro Family Laboratory of Viral Oncology and Aging Research, The UCLA School of Dentistry, 2UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, 3David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA We describe a step-by-step method of performing direct pulp capping on mice teeth for the evaluation of pulpal wound healing and reparative dentin formation in vivo.
