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The Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry offers students many opportunities to enhance the dental school experience. We present our students with numerous experiences outside the rigors of the classroom and clinic.

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The guiding principle of endodontic treatment is to preserve teeth while maintaining its aesthetic and functional roles. To accomplish this goal the assessment of teeth pulp vitality is very important since it will determine the procedures that should be adopted and define the therapy strategy. Currently, the most commonly tests for determining dental pulp state are the thermal and the electrical tests, which are based on nerve response and, because of that, have a relatively high rate of false positives and false negatives cases. In this work we present a simple test to be used in the clinical setting for evaluating noninvasively the existence of blood perfusion in dental pulp. This test is based on pulse oximetry principle that was devised to indirectly measure the amount of oxygen in blood. Although pulse oximetry has already demonstrated its usefulness in clinical environment its usage for the determination of dental pulp vitality has been frustrated by several factors, notably the absence of a suitable sensor to the complex shape of the various coronary teeth. We developed a suitable sensor and present the first trials with promising results, regarding the ability for distinguish teeth with and without blood perfusion.

These caveats aside, the use of pulse oximetry is mentioned a number of times in the paper but is seen as being unlikely in practices not offering sedation ('usually only practices that administer sedation will have a pulse oximeter').

Is this anecdotal, and if so, then why? A simple digital pulse oximeter measuring about 2.5 1.5 inches, that will easily slip onto a finger, can be easily obtained from retailers such as Amazon for about 35.

The Resuscitation Council recommendations, also set out in the paper, include a recommendation for pulse oximetry. I can't help feeling that in light of this and the confirmed cases of harm from poor technique that are mentioned, perhaps an ideal opportunity was missed to strongly recommend to dentists an essential, inexpensive piece of kit!