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COMPLETEDNCT01201681

DPBRN Peri-operative Pain and Root Canal Therapy

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 allo...

Lead sponsor: Dental Practice-Based Research Network•7 U.S. locations•View source on ClinicalTrials.gov

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Sponsors

Lead Sponsor

Dental Practice-Based Research Network

Collaborators

National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR)
HealthPartners Institute
Kaiser Permanente
Permanente Dental Associates Group, Oregon
University of Florida
University of Copenhagen
University of Alabama at Birmingham
University of Minnesota

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.

Age

19 - 70 years

Sex

ALL

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)

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Data from ClinicalTrials.govLast updated on ClinicalTrials.gov: September 20, 2011Terms

Trial snapshot

StatusCOMPLETED

Phase—

Enrollment500

Start dateJul 2010

Last updatedSep 20, 2011

Condition

Post-operative Tooth Pain Root Canal Therapy

Locations shown

University of Alabama at Birmingham

Birmingham, Alabama

University of Florida College of Dentistry

Gainesville, Florida

Health Partners Dental Group

Minneapolis, Minnesota

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This clinical trial information is sourced from ClinicalTrials.gov, a service of the U.S. National Institutes of Health.

ClinicalTrials.gov last update: September 20, 2011Data synced to Clareo: May 25, 2026

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