The aim of the present study will be directed to evaluate the clinical and radiographic success of adult pulpotomies in type 2 diabetic and non-diabetic patients.
Out of one hundred patients, Seventy Patients were selected from the outpatient clinic at the faculty of dental medicine Al-Azhar University to take part in this study. Diabetic and non diabetic patients aged between 30 and 65 years complaining of irreversible pulpitis related to the lower permanent first or second molar tooth . All patients were clinically reexamined and radiographically assessed using a periapical radiograph.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
DOUBLE
Enrollment
70
Moataz A AlKhawas
Cairo, Egypt
Outcome assessment
Assessment of outcome was done using the technique described by Zanini et al. Each patient was evaluated at different time intervals; Treatment was considered successful if there was an intact final restoration, an asymptomatic tooth, and the periapical index score was 1. Treatment was considered Uncertain if the final restoration is intact, asymptomatic tooth, and the periapical index score of 2. Treatment was considered a failure if there was not an intact final restoration, irrelevant clinical symptoms and an irrelevant periapical index score. Treatment was considered a failure if there was an intact final restoration with symptoms and an irrelevant periapical index score. * Treatment was considered a failure if there was an intact final restoration, irrelevant clinical symptoms, and the periapical index was 3 or more.
Time frame: 3, 6, 12 months
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