Comparative Evaluation of an Electrical Impedance Device Versus Digital Radiography in Estimation of Remaining Dentin Thickness in Carious Posterior Permanent Teeth (Diagnostic Accuracy Trial)
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 进行中（未招募）
- 发起方
- 入组人数
- 67
- 试验地点
- 3
- 主要终点
- validity of the two devices
研究概览
简要总结
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.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Non Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Diagnostic
- 盲法
- Single (Outcomes Assessor)
盲法说明
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
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 12 Years 至 25 Years（Child, Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •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
排除标准
- •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.
结局指标
主要结局
validity of the two devices
时间窗: Through study completion, an average of 1 year
Level of agreement between the digital radiograph and the device in measurement of remaining dentin thickness
次要结局
- Patients satisfaction between two devices(Through study completion, an average of 1 year)
研究者
Rawda Hesham Abd ElAziz
Lecturer, Conservative dentistry department, Faculty of Dentistry, Cairo University.
Cairo University