Comparison of pain after cleaning and shaping step of root canal treatment in patients with mild or moderate pain due to root canal infection using two types of instruments used for the procedure
- Conditions
- Health Condition 1: K045- Chronic apical periodontitis
- Registration Number
- CTRI/2021/04/032841
- Lead Sponsor
- DR POOJA KP
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 94
•Patients within the age group of 20â??40 years
•Patients with no history of taking analgesics or antibiotics within one week
•Tooth with chronic apical periodontitis with periapical lesion less than 3mm
•Ability to apply a rubber dam
•Single rooted tooth with single canal with no curvature(radiographically assessed).
•Teeth without good apical constriction, such as wide or open apex
•Retreatment cases
• Patients who were on medication for chronic pain
•Teeth with difficult root canal anatomy (resorption, radiographic evidence of calcification, or open apices)
•Two or more adjacent teeth requiring root canal therapy
•Presence of sinus tracts
•Medically compromised patients
•Tooth with periodontal pathosis and weakened periodontium
•Tooth with long roots and wide canals (which cannot be instrumented with 25 size file with 25 mm length)
•Infectious diseases
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method POST OPERATIVE PAIN MEASURED USING VISUAL ANALOGUE SCALE AFTER <br/ ><br> BIOMECHANICAL PREPARATION STEP OF ROOT CANAL TREATMENTTimepoint: POST OPERATIVE PAIN MEASURED USING VISUAL ANALOGUE SCALE AT 24 hrs,48hrs AND 72 hrs AFTER BIOMECHANICAL PREPARATION STEP OF ROOT CANAL TREATMENT
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method INTENSITY OF PAIN IS MEASURED AS MILD,MODERATE OR SEVERE USING VISUAL ANALOGUE SCALETimepoint: INTENSITY OF PAIN IS MEASURED AT 24HRS,48 HRS AND 72 HRS