“…MTA liberates numerous growth factors from dentine during pulp capping (Tomson et al, 2017). Although MTA would appear to be a good PCA based upon the success rates, there are numerous issues with its use, for example, long setting times (> 2 h for some brands), discolouration of teeth, poor handling characteristics (due to its crumbly nature), risk of pulpal obliteration and high cost (Linsuwanont et al, 2017;Qureshi et al, 2014;Zafar et al, 2020). Due to the release of Ca(OH) 2 , MTA also has high alkalinity, which again is cytotoxic (Kim et al, 2019;Youssef et al, 2019).…”