This study is designed to compare between MTA Pulpotomy (Removal of coronal pulp tissue, placing MTA and covering with Stainless steel crown) Versus Conventional Pulpectomy (Removal of radicular pulp tissue, placing Zinc Oxide/Eugenol and covering with Stainless steel crown) in irreversible pulpitis in primary second molars.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
42
Removal of radicular pulp tissue, placing Zinc Oxide/Eugenol and covered by stainless steel crown
Removal of coronal pulp tissue, placing MTA and covered by stainless steel crown
Cairo University
Cairo, Egypt
• rate of clinical success
* tenderness on percussion and palpation * sinus/parulis/fistula * soft tissue swelling * pathological mobility
Time frame: 12 months
• rate of radiographic success
* pathologic root resorption. * interradicular and/or periapical radiolucency
Time frame: 12 months
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