Status:

COMPLETED

DPBRN Persistent Pain and Root Canal Therapy

Lead Sponsor:

Dental Practice-Based Research Network

Collaborating Sponsors:

National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR)

HealthPartners Institute

Conditions:

Root Canal Therapy

Persistent Tooth Pain

Eligibility:

All Genders

19-70 years

Brief Summary

The purpose of this study is to document by survey the occurence of tooth pain present 3 months and 6 months after root canal therapy in the patients recruited for the DPBRN "Peri-operative tooth pain...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • 19-70 years old
  • Permanent adult tooth requiring its first non-surgical root canal therapy
  • patients with more than 1 tooth requiring root canal therapy are eligible, but only the first root canal procedure will be included to avoid problems of correlation within patients

Exclusion

  • evidence of prior root canal therapy, including iatrogenic, but not disease-induced pulp access of the tooth being considered
  • patients with obvious cognitive impairments (e.g., past stroke with communication deficits, dementia,mental disability)
  • patients unable to return for 6 month follow-up

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

August 1 2010

Trial Type :

OBSERVATIONAL

Allocation :

ESTIMATED

End Date :

September 1 2011

Estimated Enrollment :

500 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT01201668

Start Date

August 1 2010

End Date

September 1 2011

Last Update

September 20 2011

Active Locations (8)

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1

University of Alabama at Birmingham

Birmingham, Alabama, United States, 35294-0007

2

University of Florida College of Dentistry

Gainesville, Florida, United States, 32610

3

Health Partners Dental Group

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, 55440-1309

4

Health Partners Research Foundation

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, 55440-1524