This high number of cases is an indication of the severity of dental disease in this impoverished population. No sex predilection has been documented with this oral lesion. Pulp polyps usually are asymptomatic. Localized bleeding may occur when the soft tissue is manipulated or traumatized. All lesions are associated with a history of a long-standing carious lesion or fractured tooth.
Pulp polyps reach a maximum size within a couple of months and then remain static.
Spongy, soft tissue nodule that extrudes from the cavitated or fractured surface of a tooth. The surface varies from pink and smooth to red and white and granular. Polyps typically enlarge to fill the entire cavitated area or pulpal chamber of the tooth. Soft tissue may merge with the adjacent attached gingiva. Polyps usually develop in carious primary molars and first permanent molars.