DPBRN Peri-operative Pain and Root Canal Therapy

Peri-operative Pain and Root Canal Therapy

Status

Completed

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT01201681

Enrollment

500

Registered

2010-09-14

Start date

2010-07-31

Completion date

2011-09-30

Last updated

2011-09-20

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Conditions

Post-operative Tooth Pain, Root Canal Therapy

Keywords

Post-operative pain, intra-operative pain, root canal therapy, feasibility, post-surgical persistent pain

Brief summary

The purpose of this study is to identify pre-operative factors that put patients at greater risk of developing severe tooth pain following root canal therapy, thereby providing evidence that will allow dentists to act preventively to lessen this risk, improve pain control, increase their patients' quality of life, and decrease the number of dental emergency interactions. A parallel goal of this study is to assess the feasibility of recruiting dentists that provide root canal therapy and patients using the DPBRN.

Detailed description

Goals for this study is to: * Assess the frequency and intensity of pre-operative pain * Evaluate the occurence and intensity of intra-operative pain * Evaluate the occurence and intensity of post-operative pain * Assess the interference of persistent tooth pain with daily life * Identify a limited set of risk factors related to the development of post-operative pain.

Interventions

None listed

Study design

Observational model

COHORT

Time perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

19 Years to 70 Years

Healthy volunteers

Yes

Inclusion criteria

* 19-70 years old * permanent adult tooth requiring it first non-surgical root canal therapy * patients with more than 1 tooth requiring root canal therapy are eligible, but only the first root canal procedure performed will be included to avoid problems of correlation within patients

Exclusion criteria

* Evidence of prior root canal therapy, including iatrogenic, but not disease-induced, pulp access of the tooth being considered * patients with obvious cognitive impairments (e.g., past stroke with communication deficits, dementia, mental disability) * patients unable to return for 6 month follow-up, since another study plans to obtain data of these patients at that time (DPBRN Persistent Tooth Pain)

Countries

Denmark, United States

Outcome results