Evaluation of Conservative Management of Teeth With Deep Cavitated Carious Lesions

• Status: Active, not recruiting
• Trial end date: 2025-01-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The goal of this clinical trial is to compare postoperative pain of calcium silicate cement and resin-based tricalcium silicate (TheraCal LC) versus chemically Cured Glass Ionomer cement (FujiXI) in conservative management of very deep carious lesions by selective caries removal

• Phase: Phase 2/Phase 3
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Cairo University
• Treatments: Calcium

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Patients male or female older than 18 y in good general health

2. A minimum of 1 deep carious lesion penetrating three-quarters or more into the dentine as identified with the periapical (PA) radiograph; 3-Clinically according to International Caries Detection and Assessment System (ICDAS II) score 4 (Clinical symptoms of reversible pulpitis)

4. Positive pulp response to thermal stimulation (cold test) 5. No PA changes viewed on PA radiograph

Exclusion Criteria:

1-Clinical symptoms of irreversible pulpitis requiring endodontic treatment 2. Presence of fistulas or swelling 3. Mobile teeth or tenderness to percussion 4. Anterior teeth with aesthetic concerns 5. Pregnant women, in view of requirements for radiographs 6. Patients younger than 18 y 7. Patients unable to give consent

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