Carie Care, Chemomechanical Caries Removal Technique in Primary Teeth

Hams Hamed Abdelrahman

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Dental Caries; Primary Teeth

Treatments: Other: Chemomechanical caries removal by Carie-Care; Other: Mechanical caries removal by Atraumatic Restorative Technique

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05538559

Caries Removal 2022

Details and patient eligibility

About

Chemomechanical caries removal systems have emerged as a possible valuable alternative to conventional rotary caries removal techniques in pediatric patients. Carie-Care™ is an economically minimally invasive approach that selectively removes caries-infected tissue leaving the caries-affected tissue to conserve tooth structure

Enrollment: 48 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 5 to 8 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Open carious lesions with a moderately deep dentin carious lesion(scores five or six, according to the International Caries Detection and Assessment System[ICDAS].
• The access of the carious lesion has to be large enough to allow the penetration of the excavator
• Children with behavior rating 3 or 4 according to the Frankl scale

Exclusion criteria

• Clinical or radiographic evidence of pulp, furcation, or periapical pathosis
• Proximal caries evidenced by bitewing x-ray

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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48 participants in 2 patient groups

Test

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: Chemomechanical caries removal by Carie-Care

Control

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Other: Mechanical caries removal by Atraumatic Restorative Technique