Effectiveness of Rubber Dam Isolation Versus Cotton Roll Isolation on Bonded Fissure Sealant Retention

Zafer Cavit Cehreli, DDS, PhD

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Dental Caries on Pit and Fissure Surface; Dental Caries in Children; Dental Leakage

Treatments: Device: Dental Cotton Roll; Device: Rubber Dam Set

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03886727

RDI vs cotton roll

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to evaluate and compare the clinical retention of bonded fissure sealants placed under rubber dam isolation and cotton roll isolation.

Enrollment: 50 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 6 to 16 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Teeth having a clinical indication of sealing with bonded resin pit and fissure sealants
• Patients with four fully-erupted permanent molars, with unstained, caries-free and unsealed pit and fissures

Exclusion criteria

• Patients having incipient carious lesions, fewer erupted molars or teeth without pits on buccal/palatal surfaces.
• Patients with systemic diseases.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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50 participants in 2 patient groups

Rubber Dam

Active Comparator group

Description:

Isolation of single tooth using rubber dam

Treatment:

Device: Rubber Dam Set

Cotton Roll

Active Comparator group

Description:

Isolation of quadrant using cotton rolls

Treatment:

Device: Dental Cotton Roll