Effect of cold saline solution on the outcome of pulpotomy in cariously exposed and painful permanent mandibular molar teeth

Phase 4

Conditions: Health Condition 1: K040- Pulpitis

Registration Number: CTRI/2021/06/034350

Lead Sponsor: Dr AKHIL V S

Brief Summary: Not available

Detailed Description: Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status: ot Yet Recruiting

Sex: Not specified

Target Recruitment: 0

Inclusion Criteria

1. Healthy patients of either gender between 15-35 years of age with mature mandibular 1st & 2nd molar teeth with established clinical diagnosis of symptomatic irreversible pulpitis without periapical rarefaction.

2. Positive response to cold test.

3. Teeth with restorable carious lesion

Exclusion Criteria

1. Teeth with cracks, cusp fractures, sub gingival caries and poor periodontal health

2. Patients with systemic conditions which could compromise the healing.

3. Patients not willing to participate in the study.

4.Hemostasis after pulpotomy cannot be achieved within 10 minutes

5. Clinical diagnosis changes to pulp necrosis

Study & Design

Study Type: Interventional

Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
SUCCESS <br/ ><br>â?¢Patient is asymptomatic <br/ ><br>â?¢Absence of swelling,sinus tract <br/ ><br>â?¢Negative response to palpation and percussion test <br/ ><br>â?¢Normal periradicular architecture <br/ ><br>â?¢Absence of root resorption <br/ ><br>â?¢Absence of pulp canal obliteration. <br/ ><br>FAILURES <br/ ><br>Patient symptomatic <br/ ><br>â?¢Presence of swelling, sinus tract <br/ ><br>â?¢Positive response to palpation and percussion test <br/ ><br>â?¢Widening of periodontal ligament space <br/ ><br>â?¢Presence of apical or furcal radiolucency <br/ ><br>â?¢Presence of pulp canal obliterations <br/ ><br> <br/ ><br> <br/ ><br> <br/ ><br>Timepoint: 6 months and 1 year <br/ ><br> <br/ ><br>

Secondary Outcome Measures