Research Article
Dental Pulp: Correspondences and Contradictions between Clinical and Histological Diagnosis
Table 3
Score values and final scores for the investigated pulpitides.
| Final score | Histologic features | Total number of cases | Acute pulpitis | Chronic pulpitis |
Number of cases | I_I | C_D | P_C | N |
Number of cases | I_I | C_D | P_C | N |
| 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 20 | | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 15 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | | 5 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 15 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| 6 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
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I_I: inflammatory infiltrate, C_D: collagen deposition, P_C: pulp calcification, and N: necrosis.
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