Chondroid metaplasia in inflamed pulp tissue: a case report

According to the best knowledge of the authors, this is possibly the first report of an occurrence of chondroid metaplasia in the dental pulp. This metaplasia could be the result of an attempt at tissue repair by the pulp tissue injured by the carious lesion. The pathologic changes in the dental pulp could have activated some of the mechanisms that have been described in other tissues, producing the formation of chondroid tissue. Pulp tissue may adapt to changed environmental stimuli by a deviation from normal cell differentiation.