Human Pulpal Response After Pulp Capping With Four Different Agents

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2011-03-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Application of four different pulp capping methods on human sound premolars after intentional exposure of the buccal pulp horn through a class one occlusal cavity.

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

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Islamic Azad University, Tehran
• Treatments: Calcium; Calcium, Dietary

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patients aging from 10 to 16

• Patients who need to extract 4 premolars for orthodontic purposes

• the teeth should be free of caries and clinical symptoms

• Through thermal tests and radiographic examination absence of any pathology is confirmed.

• Periapical radiographs demonstrating absence of any pathology

• no sensitivity to percussion, palpation and biting, no sensitivity to cold after 5 seconds contact with Green Endo Ice refrigerant spray, heat sensitivity after applying tempered Gutta Percha for 10 seconds.

• Absence of any systematic disorder

• No consumption of drugs of any kind

• All patients and their parents need to sign a fully informed consent.

Exclusion Criteria:

• If any of the teeth shows caries, restoration, crack or hypocalcification

• presence of any periapical pathosis

• Teeth that seem sensitive to cold, hot, percussion or pressure

• any systematic disorder

• consumption of drugs of any kind.