Comparative Evaluation of an Electrical Impedance Device Versus Digital Radiography in Estimation of Remaining Dentin Thickness in Carious Posterior Permanent Teeth (Diagnostic Accuracy Trial)
Trial Snapshot
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Status
- Active, not recruiting
- Sponsor
- Enrollment
- 67
- Locations
- 3
- Primary Endpoint
- validity of the two devices
Study Overview
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.
Study Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Allocation
- Non Randomized
- Intervention Model
- Parallel
- Primary Purpose
- Diagnostic
- Masking
- Single (Outcomes Assessor)
Masking Description
The assessors will not be blind about the type of intervention/control assessment methods due to different application methods. However it will not be allowed amongst the examiners to exchange any information throughout the entire study period
Eligibility Criteria
- Ages
- 12 Years to 25 Years (Child, Adult)
- Sex
- All
- Accepts Healthy Volunteers
- Yes
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.
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
validity of the two devices
Time Frame: 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 Outcomes
- Patients satisfaction between two devices(Through study completion, an average of 1 year)
Investigators
Rawda Hesham Abd ElAziz
Lecturer, Conservative dentistry department, Faculty of Dentistry, Cairo University.
Cairo University