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CTRI Number  CTRI/2025/06/089515 [Registered on: 25/06/2025] Trial Registered Prospectively
Last Modified On: 24/06/2025
Post Graduate Thesis  Yes 
Type of Trial  Interventional 
Type of Study   Dentistry 
Study Design  Randomized, Parallel Group Trial 
Public Title of Study   Effect of various indirect pulp capping agents in primary molars.  
Scientific Title of Study   Comparative evaluation of calcium hydroxide, resin-modified glass-ionomer cement and enhanced resin-modified glass-ionomer as indirect pulp capping agent in primary molars: a randomised controlled trial 
Trial Acronym  NIL 
Secondary IDs if Any  
Secondary ID  Identifier 
NIL  NIL 
 
Details of Principal Investigator or overall Trial Coordinator (multi-center study)  
Name  Dr Yogesh Kale 
Designation  Professor and Head of the Department  
Affiliation  MIDSR Dental College, Latur, Maharashtra 
Address  Room no. 6 Ground floor Department of Pediatric and Preventive Dentistry, MIDSR Dental College, Latur, Maharashtra Latur MAHARASHTRA 413512 India

Latur
MAHARASHTRA
413512
India 
Phone  980588705  
Fax    
Email  dryogesh77@yahoo.com  
 
Details of Contact Person
Scientific Query
 
Name  Dr Mansi Bhakkad 
Designation  Post graduate student 
Affiliation  MIDSR Dental College, Latur, Maharashtra 
Address  Room no. 6 Ground floor Department of Pediatric and Preventive Dentistry, MIDSR Dental College, Latur, Maharashtra Latur MAHARASHTRA 413512 India

Latur
MAHARASHTRA
413512
India 
Phone  8983817566  
Fax    
Email  mansi.bhakkad1234@gmail.com  
 
Details of Contact Person
Public Query
 
Name  Dr Mansi Bhakkad 
Designation  Post graduate student 
Affiliation  MIDSR Dental College, Latur, Maharashtra 
Address  Room no. 6 Ground floor Department of Pediatric and Preventive Dentistry, MIDSR Dental College, Latur, Maharashtra Latur MAHARASHTRA 413512 India

Latur
MAHARASHTRA
413512
India 
Phone  8983817566  
Fax    
Email  mansi.bhakkad1234@gmail.com  
 
Source of Monetary or Material Support  
Room no. 6 Ground floor Department of Pediatric And Preventive Dentistry, MIDSR DentalCollege, Latur, Maharashtra 
 
Primary Sponsor  
Name  Dr Mansi bhakkad 
Address  Room no. 6 Ground floor Department of Pediatric And Preventive Dentistry, MIDSR Dental College, Latur, Maharashtra 
Type of Sponsor  Other [self] 
 
Details of Secondary Sponsor  
Name  Address 
Dr Yogesh Kale  Room no. 6 Ground floor Department of Pediatric And Preventive Dentistry, MIDSR Dental College, Latur, Maharashtra 
 
Countries of Recruitment     India  
Sites of Study  
No of Sites = 1  
Name of Principal Investigator  Name of Site  Site Address  Phone/Fax/Email 
Dr Yogesh Kale   MIDSR Dental College, Latur, Maharashtra  Room no. 6, Department of Pediatric And Preventive Dentistry, MIDSR Dental College Latur, Maharashtra Latur MAHARASHTRA
Latur
MAHARASHTRA 
9890588705

dryogesh77@yahoo.com 
 
Details of Ethics Committee  
No of Ethics Committees= 1  
Name of Committee  Approval Status 
Institutional Ethical Committee, MIDSR Dental College, Latur  Approved 
 
Regulatory Clearance Status from DCGI  
Status 
Not Applicable 
 
Health Condition / Problems Studied  
Health Type  Condition 
Patients  , (1) ICD-10 Condition: K025||Dental caries on pit and fissure surface,  
 
Intervention / Comparator Agent  
Type  Name  Details 
Comparator Agent  Calcium hydroxide  Clinical and radiographic effect of calcium hydroixde as indirect pulp capping agent  
Intervention  Enhanced resin-modified glass-ionomer cement  Clinical and radiographic effect of enhanced resin modified glass ionomer cement as indirect pulp capping agent 
Intervention  Resin-modified glass-ionomer cement  Clinical and radiographic effect of resin modified glass ionomer cement as indirect pulp capping agent 
 
Inclusion Criteria  
Age From  4.00 Year(s)
Age To  8.00 Year(s)
Gender  Both 
Details  1. Children in age group of 4-8 years
2. Children with carios primary molars ICADS score 4-6.
3. No histroy of spontaneous pain.
4. No tenderness observed on palpation and percussion 5. Absence of radiolucencies at the interradicular and/or periapical regions, as determined by periapical radiographs.
6. No evidence of internal or external resorption. 
 
ExclusionCriteria 
Details  1. History of sharp, penetrating pulpal pain, indicating acute pulpal inflammation and necrosis.
2. Prolonged spontaneous pain at night.
3. Pathological mobility
4. Negative response to vitality test
5. Presence of abscess/fistula
6.Deep caries involving more than two-thirds of dentin thickness
7.No physiological root resorption
 
 
Method of Generating Random Sequence   Computer generated randomization 
Method of Concealment   Not Applicable 
Blinding/Masking   Participant Blinded 
Primary Outcome  
Outcome  TimePoints 
The effect of calcium hydroxide, resin-modified glass-ionomer cement
and enhanced resin-modified glass-ionomer when used as indirect pulp capping
agent in primary molars 
3 months 
 
Secondary Outcome  
Outcome  TimePoints 
Among three calcium hydroxide, resin-modified glass-ionomer cement and enhanced resin-modified glass-ionomer have better efficacy as an indirect
pulp capping agent in primary molars 
3 months 
 
Target Sample Size   Total Sample Size="45"
Sample Size from India="45" 
Final Enrollment numbers achieved (Total)= "Applicable only for Completed/Terminated trials"
Final Enrollment numbers achieved (India)="Applicable only for Completed/Terminated trials" 
Phase of Trial   Phase 2 
Date of First Enrollment (India)   10/07/2025 
Date of Study Completion (India) Applicable only for Completed/Terminated trials 
Date of First Enrollment (Global)  07/07/2025 
Date of Study Completion (Global) Applicable only for Completed/Terminated trials 
Estimated Duration of Trial   Years="1"
Months="0"
Days="0" 
Recruitment Status of Trial (Global)   Not Applicable 
Recruitment Status of Trial (India)  Not Yet Recruiting 
Publication Details   N/A 
Individual Participant Data (IPD) Sharing Statement

Will individual participant data (IPD) be shared publicly (including data dictionaries)?  

Response - NO
Brief Summary   Dental caries is one of the most frequently occurring diseases affecting human beings that becomes a challenge for dentists as the disease progresses.1 The major dilemma for a pediatric dentist is to decide on the best treatment approach for carious primary teeth based on clinical and radiographic symptoms as children often present unreliable pain descriptions.2 Premature loss of deciduous tooth can lead to malocclusion, disintegration of dental arches, loss of function, and loss of esthetics. Hence, maintaining its vitality until its natural period of exfoliation is imperative for maintaining the arch form and integrity. To retain the tooth in the dental arch, either of the two treatments can be done, i.e., vital pulp therapy (VPT) or root canal treatment (RCT).3 Pulp capping is a minimal invasive vital therapy that preserves the pulp vitality of teeth with deep caries lesions or accidental pulp exposure. The exposed dentin-pulp tissues are covered with a medication in contact with a pulp wound to promote dentin-pulp healing and/or obliteration of the exposed pulp by a neoformed dentin bridge.4 Indirect pulp treatment (IPT) of primary teeth has gained increased worldwide popularity in recent years and has shown to have a lower cost, higher long-term success, better exfoliation pattern, and better success treating reversible pulpitis than pulpotomy.5 Indirect pulp capping (IPC) is one of the main processes of vital pulp therapy. It is a method in which preservation of affected carious dentin nearest to the pulp is carried out to prevent the exposure of the pulp. Then this layer of dentin is covered with a material that helps in formation of reparative dentin and protection of pulp.6 TITLE & SYNOPSIS 2 Calcium hydroxide (CH) is taken as the gold standard among all the pulp capping agents that are used. Its use was first put forward by Zander. There is formation of "reparative dentin," which takes place by cellular differentiation and extracellular matrix secretion. Subsequently, there is mineralization. Following this cascade of mechanism, a lot of drawbacks are seen. For example, there is an appearance of "tunnel defects" by the slow disintegrating "newly formed dentin." This phenomenon can be observed with CH when a long follow-up is taken. CH was found to be successful clinically by 97.6% after 16 months of follow-up and by 13% after 10 years of follow-up.7 Amidst other materials, calcium hydroxide was popularized for several decades but due to its limitations got replaced by newer agents such as Resin-modified glass ionomer (RMGI).2 Materials like resin-modified glass ionomer cement (RMGIC) that have additional adhesive properties have been introduced. It has been found that RMGIC are effective as IPC agents in adverse conditions such as minimum thickness of remaining dentin in teeth severely damaged by large carious lesions. Such an effect of RMGIC can be attributed to their additional adhesive properties with dentin and their antimicrobial properties.6 New-generation materials with bioactive glass particles have been used in all areas of dentistry in recent years to increase the bioactivity and regeneration capacity of dental materials. The most characteristic feature of bioactive glasses for medical use is that their surface consists of a layer of bioactive hydroxycarbonate apatite (HCA) that provides bonding with tissues. Thanks to this HCA layer, bioactive glasses can be chemically bound to the surrounding hard and soft tissues. It is thought that bioactive glasses can also be used in pulp-capping treatments because they stimulate hard tissue formation, can create dentin bridges that provide continuity, and have biocompatibility and antibacterial properties ACTIVA BioACTIVE-Base/Liner material with bioactive glass has physical properties of composite materials, such as esthetics and durability. However, it has been introduced as a combination of glass ionomer 3 containing materials, such as calcium and phosphate, with fluoride ion-releasing and -recycling properties.8 The purpose of this study is to compare and evaluate the three different agents i.e calcium hydroxide, resin-modifed glass-ionomer cement and enhanced resin modified glass-ionomer. This current study is design to compare and evaluate the clinical and radiographic success of three indirect pulp capping agent they are calcium hydroxide, resin-modifed glass-ionomer cement and enhanced resin-modified glass-ionomer in primary molars.  
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