Indirect Pulp Treatment in Primary Teeth

• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Trial end date: 2022-10-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Conservative approaches such as indirect pulp capping techniques became popular over the last years for the management of deep carious lesions. In particular, indirect pulp-treatment (IPT) techniques have gained remarkable attention in pediatric dentistry, mainly because children require a fast and accurate treatment, besides it enables the affected primary tooth to remain in the mouth until exfoliation without causing any pain or infection.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Cairo University
• Treatments: Calcium

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• • Presence of active carious lesions involving either occlusal or proximal surfaces of primary molars.

• Extension of carious lesion such that complete caries removal would risk pulp exposure.

• History of tolerable dull intermittent pain, mild discomfort associated with eating, negative history of spontaneous extreme pain.

• Radiographically, carious lesion involving more than 2/3rd thickness of dentin approximating the pulp, normal lamina dura, normal periodontal ligament space, more than 2/3rd of root present, no periapical changes, no pathologic external or internal resorption.

Exclusion Criteria:

• • History of spontaneous sharp, penetrating pain, or tenderness on percussion

• Presence of tooth mobility, discoloration, sinus opening, or abscessed tooth.

• Radiographically, presence of interrupted or broken lamina dura, widened periodontal ligament space, periapical radiolucency, internal or external resorption.

• Pulp exposure during caries removal.

• Parental refusal for participation.