otomy definition
otomy means „to cut‟, so pulpotomy is „to cut the pulp‟. The aim of pulpotomy in the primary tooth is to amputate the inflamed coronal pulp and preserve the vitality of the radicular pulp, thereby facilitating the normal exfoliation of the primary tooth. A pulpotomy cannot be done if the pulp is necrotic (Cameron and Widmer, 2013).