To assess the outcome of two different methods of pulpotomy in carious exposed and painful permanent teeth.
- Conditions
- Health Condition 1: K02- Dental caries
- Registration Number
- CTRI/2021/12/039044
- Lead Sponsor
- Aaqib Ahmad Shah
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- ot Yet Recruiting
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 0
1)Healthy patients with mature mandibular 1st & 2nd molar with established clinical diagnosis of symptomatic irreversible pulpitis without periapical rarefaction.
2)Radiographically extremely deep carious lesion penetrating the entire thickness of the dentin, without a radio-dense zone.
3)Positive response to cold and electric pulp test.
4)Teeth with restorable carious lesion.
1)Deep carious lesions extending >=3/4 of the dentine thickness, with a visible radiopaque zone separating the carious lesion from the pulp, of mature permanent teeth with symptomatic irreversible pulpitis
2)Extremely deep carious lesion with periapical rarefaction.
3)Teeth with cracks, cusp fractures, subgingival caries and poor periodontal health
4)Patients with systemic conditions which could compromise the healing.
5)Patients not willing to participate in the study.
Intraoperative exclusion criteria:
1)Bleeding that cannot be controlled within 10 minutes with 2.5% NaOCl wet cotton pellet
2)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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