Thermal micro-insults during routine dental procedures: a forgotten determinant of pulp and dentine fate - a scoping review

Background

Thermal changes generated during routine dental procedures have traditionally been evaluated only in relation to acute pulpal injury and irreversible temperature thresholds. A growing body of experimental evidence suggests that repeated low-grade heat exposure may produce cumulative sub-clinical biological changes within the dentine-pulp complex, a phenomenon we here group under the working term "thermal micro-insults" (TMI).