Medical Management of Caries in the Primary Dentition Using Silver Nitrate

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2018-08-21
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

This pilot trial compares conventional restorations with a new strategy based on the medical management of caries using silver nitrate and fluoride varnish with no restorations.

• Phase: Early Phase 1
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Arwa Owais; University of Iowa
• Collaborator: Delta Dental of Iowa
• Treatments: Fluorides; Fluorides, Topical; Silver Nitrate

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Presense of one or more cavitated carious lesions in the primary dentition, extending into dentin but not encroaching on the pulp.

• Absense of any spontaneous or elicited pain due to caries, or signs of pulpal infection in response to any of the carious lesions in the primary dentition to be included in the study

Exclusion Criteria:

• Hereditary developmental defects of the teeth such as Amelogenesis Imperfecta and Dentinogenesis Imperfecta

• Medical conditions that prevent treatment of the child in the outpatient clinic. These conditions include severe bleeding disorders, cardiac problems and mental disabilities that prevent child from communication with the research team.

• Known allergy/sensitivity to any of the dental materials.