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CTRI Number  CTRI/2022/03/041134 [Registered on: 16/03/2022] Trial Registered Prospectively
Last Modified On: 15/07/2025
Post Graduate Thesis  No 
Type of Trial  Interventional 
Type of Study   Dentistry 
Study Design  Randomized, Crossover Trial 
Public Title of Study   Clinical Comparison of two different types of crowns in primary teeth. 
Scientific Title of Study   Comparative evaluation of clinical success of stainless steel and Kids-e- Bioflex crowns in primary teeth – A split mouth prospective randomized clinical study 
Trial Acronym   
Secondary IDs if Any  
Secondary ID  Identifier 
NIL  NIL 
 
Details of Principal Investigator or overall Trial Coordinator (multi-center study)  
Name  Dr Amol Patil 
Designation  Associate Professor 
Affiliation  M A Rangoonwala College of Dental Sciences and Research Institute Pune  
Address  M A Rangoonwala College of Dental Sciences and Research Institute, Department of Pedodontics, room no 206, Camp, Pune

Pune
MAHARASHTRA
411001
India 
Phone  9561042279  
Fax    
Email  amolpatil2526@gmail.com  
 
Details of Contact Person
Scientific Query
 
Name  Dr Amol Patil 
Designation  Associate Professor 
Affiliation  M A Rangoonwala College of Dental Sciences and Research Institute Pune  
Address  M A Rangoonwala College of Dental Sciences and Research Institute, Department of Pedodontics, room no 206, Camp, Pune

Pune
MAHARASHTRA
411001
India 
Phone  9561042279  
Fax    
Email  amolpatil2526@gmail.com  
 
Details of Contact Person
Public Query
 
Name  Dr Amol Patil 
Designation  Associate Professor 
Affiliation  M A Rangoonwala College of Dental Sciences and Research Institute Pune  
Address  M A Rangoonwala College of Dental Sciences and Research Institute, Department of Pedodontics, room no 206, Camp, Pune

Pune
MAHARASHTRA
411001
India 
Phone  9561042279  
Fax    
Email  amolpatil2526@gmail.com  
 
Source of Monetary or Material Support  
M A RANGOONWALA COLLEGE OF DENTAL SCIENCES AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE, DEPARTMENT OF PEDIATRIC DENTISTRY, ROOM NO 206, CAMP ,PUNE 
 
Primary Sponsor  
Name  nil 
Address  nil 
Type of Sponsor  Other [Self] 
 
Details of Secondary Sponsor  
Name  Address 
NIL  NIL 
 
Countries of Recruitment     India  
Sites of Study  
No of Sites = 1  
Name of Principal Investigator  Name of Site  Site Address  Phone/Fax/Email 
Dr Amol Patil  M A Rangoonwala College of Dental Sciences and Research Institute  M A Rangoonwala College of Dental Sciences and Research Institute, Department of Pedodontics, room no 206, Camp, Pune Pune MAHARASHTRA 411001
Pune
MAHARASHTRA 
9561042279

amolpatil2526@gmail.com 
 
Details of Ethics Committee  
No of Ethics Committees= 1  
Name of Committee  Approval Status 
Ethics Committee of M.C.E. Society, Pune  Approved 
 
Regulatory Clearance Status from DCGI  
Status 
Not Applicable 
 
Health Condition / Problems Studied  
Health Type  Condition 
Healthy Human Volunteers  dental caries 
Patients  (1) ICD-10 Condition: K029||Dental caries, unspecified,  
 
Intervention / Comparator Agent  
Type  Name  Details 
Comparator Agent  Kids-e-Bioflex Crown  The tooth will be anesthetized, rubber dam will be placed, crown selection will be carried out first for Kids-e-bioflex crowns. Then the PM will be prepared following the manufacturer’s guidelines by occlusal, peripheral, and subgingival reduction. The occlusion will be assessed for occlusal clearance. Prepared tooth should be free from blood, saliva, residues prior to crown cementation and Type -1 glass ionomer luting cement will be employed for luting of Kids-e-Bioflex crowns. • After cementation, the crown surface will be cleaned and flossing will be done in the interdental area to remove excess cement. • Post-operative radiographs will be recorded.  
Intervention  Stainless Steel  The stainless steel crown selection will be carried out. Then the tooth will be prepared by occlusal and proximal reduction as per the guideline given by Mathewson; an SCC will be tried and adjusted to fit the tooth. According to the manufacturing instructions, tooth preparation will be done and occlusion will be assessed. Prepared tooth should be free from blood, saliva, residues prior to crown cementation and Type -1 glass ionomer luting cement will be employed for luting of Stainless steel crowns. • After cementation, the crown surface will be cleaned and flossing will be done in the interdental area to remove excess cement. • Post-operative radiographs will be recorded  
 
Inclusion Criteria  
Age From  4.00 Year(s)
Age To  10.00 Year(s)
Gender  Both 
Details  Parents willing to give consent.
Primary teeth indicated for full coverage restoration.
Frankel’s positive and definitely positive patients
Children aged between 4 to 10 years.
No significant medical history.
Patients willing to return for follow-up examinations and evaluation.
Medically free patients or with controlled systemic disease ASA I or II.
No active periodontal diseases.
 
 
ExclusionCriteria 
Details  Any subject that does not fall under the inclusion criteria were excluded.
Parents not willing to give consent.
Children below the age of 4 and above the
age of 10.
Children with special needs.
Inadequate root length.
Presence of malocclusion like cross bite, crowding, scissor bite etc.
Child allergic to local anesthesia, chromium, or nickel


 
 
Method of Generating Random Sequence   Coin toss, Lottery, toss of dice, shuffling cards etc 
Method of Concealment   Not Applicable 
Blinding/Masking   Outcome Assessor Blinded 
Primary Outcome  
Outcome  TimePoints 
The primary outcome is the success of the treatment. Success will be defined by the absence of major failure fracture, wear, color change
Duration, occlusion, gingival margin extension and parent
acceptance will be clinically evaluated at baseline and at last appointment

 
one year 
 
Secondary Outcome  
Outcome  TimePoints 
The secondary outcomes are parental and child satisfaction (size, form, and function), retention and fracture of the crown.
The wear of the antagonist tooth will be recorded.
gingival condition, the wear of the antagonist teeth, as well as both parental and child satisfaction.
 
one year 
 
Target Sample Size   Total Sample Size="100"
Sample Size from India="100" 
Final Enrollment numbers achieved (Total)= "38"
Final Enrollment numbers achieved (India)="0" 
Phase of Trial   Phase 3 
Date of First Enrollment (India)   20/03/2022 
Date of Study Completion (India) Date Missing 
Date of First Enrollment (Global)  Date Missing 
Date of Study Completion (Global) Date Missing 
Estimated Duration of Trial   Years="1"
Months="0"
Days="0" 
Recruitment Status of Trial (Global)
Modification(s)  
Not Applicable 
Recruitment Status of Trial (India)  Completed 
Publication Details
Modification(s)  
published 
Individual Participant Data (IPD) Sharing Statement

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

Response - YES
  1. What data in particular will be shared?
    Response - Individual participant data that underlie the results reported in this article, after de-identification (text, tables, figures, and appendices).

  2. What additional supporting information will be shared?
    Response -  Study Protocol
    Response -  Statistical Analysis Plan
    Response - Informed Consent Form
    Response - Clinical Study Report

  3. Who will be able to view these files?
    Response - Researchers whose proposed use of the data has been approved by an independent review committee identified for this purpose.

  4. For what types of analyses will this data be available?
    Response - Any purpose.

  5. By what mechanism will data be made available?
    Response - Proposals should be directed to [amolpatil2526@gmail.com].

  6. For how long will this data be available start date provided 20-02-2023 and end date provided 20-05-2023?
    Response - Immediately following publication. No end date.

  7. Any URL or additional information regarding plan/policy for sharing IPD? 
    Additional Information - NIL
Brief Summary  

Dental caries is an infectious transmittable bacterial disease, which is characterized by a multi-factorial pathology.1 In the early childhood the caries (ECC) have effects on both dental and general health of the child.2 Oral health impacts on the quality of life of children 3, 4. However, extreme caries have a noticeable impact on the diameter of the arch.5

        In order to preserve the functional integrity of primary dentition, it is important to perform different restorative treatment due to an increase in the prevalence of dental caries today.6 In all restorative procedures, there is a loss of some amount of tooth structure, these damaged teeth can be restored with various restorative materials such as resin modified glass ionomer cement, resin filled composite or resin filled composite.7 For primary molar teeth, preformed metal crown were first described by Engle8 in year 1950 and followed by Humphrey.9 Since then, crown design modifications are done, to improve morphology of crown and to simplify the fitting procedure.10 Stainless steel crowns are the first choice for restoring defects due to caries in primary dentition and the most reliable and successful form of tooth restoration is in pediatric dentistry.9 Stainless steel crown placement is easy and economical with a high success rate for preserving remaining teeth damaged by excessive preparation.11,12 Esthetic concern is reported to be the most important problem for dental restoration in a study in pediatric patients.13Accordingly, new materials have been created to replace SSCs, such as bonded strip crowns, open-faced crowns and pre-veneered SSCs.14,15 These new materials have enhanced aesthetics but have side effects such as poor gingival health and dental margin exposure due to metal presence.11 In particular pre-veneered SSC veneer resin sometimes chips and results in additional care..15,16

            Today, for the restoration of the primary teeth, the dental practitioner has various options like preformed zirconia crowns for esthetic concern. Based on technical, functional and esthetic limitations, each technique is associated with the own sets of advantages and disadvantages.17, 18, 19

    Alternative to these, prefabricated esthetic flexible crowns are comparatively new. Flexible crowns allow practitioner to provide aesthetics of new age crowns and easy, economical as well as conservative preparation of stainless steel crowns in addition to that  they can be corrected like SSCs and that’s the reason this study is planned 
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