Mechanized Instrumentation for Endodontic Treatment of Primary Teeth

Endodontic Treatment of Primary Teeth Clinical Trial

Official title:

Evaluation of Mechanized Instrumentation for Endodontic Treatment of Primary Teeth - Randomized Clinical Trial

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03453658
• Other study ID #: FOUSP2912
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: November 8, 2017
• Est. completion date: January 28, 2021

Study information

• Verified date: March 2021
• Source: University of Sao Paulo
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Mechanized instrumentation systems stand out amongst various devices used in modern Endodontics. Its use in Pediatric Dentistry, its action in primary teeth, has been in the center of many discussions and laboratory studies. Nevertheless, up to now, a lack of clinical studies on this issue can be found. Our objective is to conduct a double blinded, 2 years follow up clinical trial to compare the success of endodontic treatment in primary teeth using mechanized reciprocating instrumentation to the use of manual instrumentation.

Description:

With the approval of the Ethics Committee of University of São Paulo, after clinical and radiographic examination, patients in search for endodontic treatment in primary teeth will be invited to take part in the study. The participants of the study will be randomized to one of two groups (manual or reciprocating instrumentation). Endodontic treatment will be held by a specialist according to the randomized group. A blinded examiner will proceed one week, 3 months, 6 months, 12 months and 24 months follow ups. Clinical and radiographic conditions of endodontic treatments will be analyzed to classify them as Success or Failure. The unit of analysis will be the teeth; hence, each participant may have more than one tooth included in the study. The randomization will be performed considering the tooth. Data analysis will consider the cluster nature of the sample.

The primary outcome of the study will be the success rates according to the groups. The longevity of treatments will be evaluated by estimating survival rates by Kaplan-Meier and Cox regression. The differences between survival rates of both groups will be through Cox regression adjusted for the cluster nature of the sample (more than one tooth per participant), considering a level of significance of 5%.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 151
• Est. completion date: January 28, 2021
• Est. primary completion date: August 31, 2018
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 3 Years to 9 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Primary molar teeth with necessity of endodontic treatment.

• Patients whose parents or guardians consent to their participation in the study

Exclusion Criteria:

Teeth presenting one of the following:

• Resorption of more than 2/3 of the root

• Destruction of the crypt of the permanent successor

• Pulp chamber floor drilling.

• Presence of internal resorption

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Endodontic Treatment of Primary Teeth

Intervention

Procedure:
• Manual instrumentation
Manual conventional files will be used in endodontic treatment of primary teeth
• Reciprocating Instrumentation
Reciprocating files system will be used in endodontic treatment of primary teeth.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Brazil	School of Dentistry, University of Sao Paulo	Sao Paulo

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Sao Paulo

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Brazil, 

References & Publications (19)

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Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Success or failure of endodontic treatment	The success or failure of endodontic treatments evaluated by the time spent in the tooth arch in clinical conditions of normality. Clinical criteria for determining success are: absence of fistula, absence of painful symptoms and pathological absence of adequate mobility and gingival contour. Radiographically, the success criteria are: absence / reduction of periapical bone rarefaction in anterior and absence / bone rarefaction in the furcation area of later, maintaining the periradicular space, root resorption compatible with the eruptive phase and absence of pathological bone resorption. To evaluate the reduction of lesions or appearance of new lesions will be between the initial and follow-up radiographs. Radiographs will be scanned and the end of the bone rarefactions starting area and will be measured on a software image analysis.	Two years
Secondary	Appointment duration	The time spent using both techniques will be measured and compared between the groups. The time will be recorded in minutes since the end of anesthesia and rubber-dam placement until the beginning of restorative procedure.	After treatment
Secondary	Quality of obturation provided by two different instrumentation techniques	After root canal obturation, a final periapical radiograph will be digitalized and analyzed, obtaining the percentage of root canal filling provided by each instrumentation technique.	After treatment
Secondary	Discomfort related to each instrumentation technique	Discomfort provided by each technique will be analyzed and compared between the groups using a validated facial scale, named Wong-Baker facial scale. This is a scale of 6 drawn faces ranging from a smiling representing no hurt face to as crying hurts worst face. Therefore, the scale has been used to evaluate pain and/or discomfort after several procedures, including dental procedures. The answers can be measured as a qualitative ordinal variable varying from 0 (no hurt) to 5 (Hurts worst). This scale has been used previously in pediatric dentistry context (Tomlinson et al., 2010).	After treatment.
Secondary	Cost-Efficacy of each instrumentation technique	The cost-efficacy of each procedure will be analyzed according to the success rate of each technique, and the results obtained will be compared.	Two years