Status:
UNKNOWN
Comparison of Mineral Trioxide Aggregate (MTA) and 20% Formocresol (FC) in Pulpotomized Human Primary Molars
Lead Sponsor:
National Taiwan University Hospital
Collaborating Sponsors:
University of Michigan
Conditions:
Dental Caries
Pulpitis
Eligibility:
All Genders
30-10 years
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
This prospective clinical randomized controlled trial is established to compare the clinical, radiographic, and histological treatment outcomes between MTA and FC in pulpotomized human primary molars ...
Detailed Description
1. Background: Formocresol (FC) is the most widely used pulpotomy medicament in the primary dentition. There are concerns associated with this medicament, primarily the carcinogenicity of the chemical...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Primary first or second molars with normal pulp, reversible, or irreversible pulpitis, that have vital carious pulp exposures due to caries and whose pulp bled upon entering the pulp chamber.
- Teeth in which hemostasis could be achieved with pressure of a saline dampened sterile cotton pellet prior to medicament/material placement.
- No clinical symptoms or evidence of pulp degeneration, such as excessive bleeding from the root canal, history of swelling, mobility, or sinus tracts.
- Patients with percussion sensitivity or spontaneous and persistent pain but where hemostasis could be achieved with pressure of sterile cotton pellet.
- No radiographic signs of internal or external root resorption, inter-radicular and/or periapical bone destruction, or furcation radiolucency.
- No more than one-third physiologic root resorption has occurred.
- Teeth had not previously been pulpally treated.
- Teeth deemed to be restorable with posterior stainless steel crowns.
Exclusion
- Not present
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
September 1 2009
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ESTIMATED
End Date :
July 1 2014
Estimated Enrollment :
200 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT00972556
Start Date
September 1 2009
End Date
July 1 2014
Last Update
August 23 2012
Active Locations (1)
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Department of Dentistry, National Taiwan University Hospital
Taipei, Taiwan, 10048