DPBRN Peri-operative Pain and Root Canal Therapy

Completed

Conditions studied: Post-operative Tooth Pain, Root Canal Therapy

In brief

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.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01201681

Run by

Dental Practice-Based Research Network

People needed

500

Starts

2010-07-01

Expected to finish

2011-09-01

Last updated by the study team

2011-09-20

Who can join

Age: 19 and older, up to 70. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• 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

You may not qualify if…

• 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)

Where it is running

• University of Alabama at Birmingham — Birmingham, Alabama, United States
• University of Florida College of Dentistry — Gainesville, Florida, United States
• Health Partners Dental Group — Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
• Health Partners Research Foundation — Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
• University of Minnesota — Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
• Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research — Portland, Oregon, United States
• Permanente Denrtal Associates — Portland, Oregon, United States
• University of Copenhagen Royal Dental College — Copenhagen, Denmark

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