Full Pulpotomy in Mature Teeth With Symptomatic Irreversible Pulpitis as a Routine Treatment in the Primary Care Clinics

Rubén Domínguez Pérez

Status: Completed

Conditions: Symptomatic Irreversible Pulpitis

Treatments: Procedure: Full pulpotomy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05199181

JS1/ENS/215/220

Details and patient eligibility

About

The present study has the objective of being a first approach of the full feasibility study in order to find out whether the Full Pulpotomy performed by a general practice dentist in a primary care dental clinic at the public health system with limited armamentarium could be suitable and present an appropriate success rate as well as patient satisfaction.

Full description

The present study has the objective of being a first approach of the full feasibility study in order to find out whether the Full Pulpotomy performed by a general practice dentist in a primary care dental clinic at the public health system with limited armamentarium could be suitable and present an appropriate success rate as well as patient satisfaction. This information will help to decide if a multi-center non-randomized intervention designed study is carried out to determine if it is feasible to provide Full Pulpotomy as a routine treatment to symptomatic irreversible pulpitis or caries pulp exposure at the primary care dental clinics of the public health system in Mexico.

Enrollment: 41 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 17 to 100 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

All the patients attending the primary care dental clinic with deep caries and/or pain in a permanent premolar or molar tooth.

• Teeth with complete radicular growth.
• Preoperative symptoms of irreversible pulpitis (Spontaneous pain or exacerbated by thermal stimuli and lasting for a few seconds to several hours interpreted as lingering pain compared with a control tooth and that could be reproduced using thermal testing)

Exclusion criteria

Medically comprised or pregnant patients.

• Teeth exclusion criteria:
• Pathological mobility
• Sinus tract
• Teeth that cannot be restored with amalgam
• Radiographic internal or external resorption
• Presence of apical rarefaction

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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41 participants in 1 patient group

Full pulpotomy

Experimental group

Description:

All patients were treated in one visit (with Full Pulpotomy); the previously trained General Practice Dentist performed all the clinical procedures

Treatment:

Procedure: Full pulpotomy