Post Operative Pain and Oral Health Related Quality of Life Following Pulpotomy VS Extraction for the Management of Permanent First Molar With Poor Prognosis: A Randomized Clinical Trial

The principal investigator will carry out all treatment procedures, and the patients will be assigned.

For both interventions:

1. Informed consent from participating parents.
2. Baseline records photographs, percussion test, periapical and panoramic radiographs, and personal data collection.
3. A diagnostic chart with personal, medical, and dental history will be filled
4. Baseline Oral Health related quality of life questionnaire for each participant.
5. A clinical examination will be performed to assess the clinical inclusion criteria. (Pulpal and periapical diagnoses are established after clinical examination).
6. Preoperative and Postoperative photographs will be taken.
7. The radiographic examination will be performed by taking a periapical radiograph and a Panoramic radiograph through a machine to assess the inclusion criteria. The preoperative radiograph will serve as a reference for the follow-up radiographs. Standardization of the technique to avoid any distortion in the vertical dimension and to provide reproducible images using an X-ray holding device.
8. Preoperative and postoperative radiographs in the pulp therapy group will be taken by a parallel technique using an XCP film holder (Super Bite, Hawe Neos DentalSA, Switzerland).
9. Participants will then be allocated into either one of the groups according to the indicated intervention needed as follows:
10. Administration of inferior alveolar nerve block and long buccal infiltration: Septocaine® and epinephrine 1:100,000 (Articaine HCl. 4% and Epinephrine 1:100,000 Injection) at the side of the affected tooth.