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

I_I: inflammatory infiltrate, C_D: collagen deposition, P_C: pulp calcification, and N: necrosis.