Partial Pulpotomy in Mature Permanent Teeth With Signs and Symptoms of Irreversible Pulpits

Launched by NATIONAL AND KAPODISTRIAN UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS · Apr 28, 2021

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Study design This is a randomized controlled clinical superiority trial, parallel designed which will be conducted in compliance with the CONSORT and PRIRATE 2020 guidelines for reporting randomized trials in Endodontology recently published by the ESE (Nagendrababu et al. 2020a, b). During the study, two different bioactive materials will be tested upon their placement on exposed pulps of mature teeth with preoperative signs and symptoms indicating the presence of irreversible pulpitis. Patients referred to the Postgraduate Clinic of Endodontology of Dental School of National and Kapodistr...

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Eligibility criteria

• Inclusion Criteria:
• • Patients older than 10 years old.
• • Written consent after their update regarding the study and its aims.
• • Noncontributory medical history.
• • Extremely deep caries extending to the pulp chamber.
• • Positive response to cold sensibility testing.
• • Presence of spontaneous pain or provoked lingering pain to cold stimuli.
• • No clinical signs of pulp necrosis such as swelling or presence of a sinus tract.
• • Restorable and periodontally sound teeth.
• Exclusion Criteria:
• • Immature teeth.
• • Cariously involved teeth with no response to pulp sensibility tests.
• • No signs and symptoms of irreversible pulpitis.
• • Bleeding not controlled in 10 minutes after partial pulpotomy.
• • Teeth with no evidence of bleeding after communication with the pulp chamber (necrosis of the coronal pulp tissue)
• • Teeth with the pulp chamber exposed to the oral environment.
• • Detection of periodontal pocket with depth greater than 4mm.
• • Teeth suspected for crack or incomplete crown fracture possibly responsible for pulp pathology.
• • Medically compromised patients.