Comparative Evaluation of an Electrical Impedance Device Versus Digital Radiography in Estimation of Remaining Dentin Thickness

Not Applicable

Active, not recruiting

• Conditions: Deep Caries; Caries,Dental

• Registration Number: NCT06162182
• Lead Sponsor: Rawda Hesham Abd ElAziz

Brief Summary

The research question was that in patients with carious posterior permanent teeth, would the electrical impedance device be as valid as digital radiography in estimation of remaining dentin thickness? The proposed hypothesis was null.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2023-02-01
• Primary Completion: 2023-09-30
• Study First Submitted: 2023-11-14
• Status Verified: 2023-12
• Study First Submitted QC: 2023-12-06
• Last Update Submitted: 2023-12-06
• Study First Posted: 2023-12-08
• Last Update Posted: 2023-12-08
• Study Completion: 2023-12-20

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 67

Inclusion Criteria

• Participants eligible for this study were those aged from 18 y to 28 y,
• willing to join the study
• with clinically detectable occlusal or proximal carious vital permanent molar teeth with closed apex and healthy periodontal supporting.
• The minimum extension of the carious cavity should be at least 1 mm in width to accommodate with the probe of the prepometer

Exclusion Criteria

• Excluded participants were those with poor oral hygiene,
• severe medical complications,
• showing signs and symptoms of irreversible or necrotic pulp pathology also when the affected tooth was with extended buccal or lingual caries, extending clinically beyond ¼ dentin thickness or previously restored.

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
validity of the two devices	Through study completion, an average of 1 year	Level of agreement between the digital radiograph and the device in measurement of remaining dentin thickness

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Patients satisfaction between two devices	Through study completion, an average of 1 year	By visual analogue scale Visual Analog Scale (VAS) which is a 100 mm straight horizontal line with the left end indicating •not at all satisfied- and the right end "very satisfied.

Trial Locations

Locations (2)

Faculty of Dentistry; 🇪🇬 Cairo, Egypt

Cairo University; 🇪🇬 Cairo, Egypt