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Host pulp response to dental caries is a key element in understanding the carious process and its consequences. In this regard, enamel acts as a physical mineralised barrier preventing bacterial infiltration into the dentine and pulp. Also, the underlying dentine histology, composition, and function provide significant information on how bacteria invasion is hindered by the dentine itself and how this dentine provides signalling molecules to induce dentine regeneration during the carious process. In the case of a deep carious lesion reaching the odontoblasts, the pulp tissue itself has also elaborated efficient strategies to hinder or even arrest the carious lesion progression and the bacterial infiltration into the pulp.