Effect of Using Nanochitosan Versus Calcium Hydroxide as Disinfectant on Pain and Apical Bone Healing

• Status: Unknown status
• Trial end date: 2020-12-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Effect of Using Nanochitosan versus Calcium Hydroxide as Intracanal Medications on the Postoperative Pain and Apical Bone Healing

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Cairo University
• Treatments: Calcium; Calcium, Dietary; Chitosan

Criteria

Inclusion criteria:

• Patients in good general health.

• Patient's age ranging between 20-40 years with no sex predilection.

• Maxillary anterior teeth with non-vital pulp and symptomatic apical periodontitis.

• Evidence of apical radiolucency (minimum size 2 mm x 2 mm).

• Patients' acceptance to participate in the study.

Exclusion criteria:

• Medically compromised patients with a severe systemic condition.

• Pregnant female patients.

• Patients who had taken any antibiotic or analgesics during the past 24 hours.

• Presence of a swelling because emergency management may include incision and drainage.

• Retreatment cases.

• Generalized periodontitis (calculus, deep pockets).

• Out of normal variations (open apex- severely curved canal- obstructed canal).