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A study to assess the outcome of pulpotomy in deep and extremely deep carious painful permanent teeth.

Phase 3
Conditions
Health Condition 1: K02- Dental caries
Registration Number
CTRI/2021/12/038556
Lead Sponsor
Dr Amritha P V
Brief Summary

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Detailed Description

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Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
ot Yet Recruiting
Sex
Not specified
Target Recruitment
0
Inclusion Criteria

Group I

•Healthy patients of with mature mandibular 1st & 2nd molar with established clinical diagnosis of symptomatic irreversible pulpitis without periapical rarefaction with deep carious lesion.

•Positive response to cold and electric pulp test.

•Teeth with restorable carious lesion.

Group II

•Healthy patients of with mature mandibular 1st & 2nd molar with established clinical diagnosis of symptomatic irreversible pulpitis without periapical rarefaction with extremely deep carious lesion.

•Positive response to cold and electric pulp test.

•Teeth with restorable carious lesion.

Exclusion Criteria

Group I

•Extensive carious lesion i.e., penetrating the entire thickness of the dentine without a radio-dense zone.

•Teeth with cracks, cusp fractures, subgingival caries and poor periodontal health.

•Patients with systemic conditions which could compromise the healing.

•Patients not willing to participate in the study.

Group II

•Deep carious lesion penetrating >=3/4 of the dentine thickness with a radio-dense zone separating the lesion from the pulp.

•Teeth with cracks, cusp fractures, subgingival caries and poor periodontal health.

•Patients with systemic conditions which could compromise the healing.

•Patients not willing to participate in the study.

Intraoperative exclusion criteria:

Group I &II

Intraoperative exclusion criteria

•Pulp bleeding that cannot be controlled within 10 minutes with 2.5% NaOCl wet cotton pellet

•Clinical diagnosis changes to pulpal necrosis

Study & Design

Study Type
Interventional
Study Design
Not specified
Primary Outcome Measures
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Secondary Outcome Measures
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