Table 1.

Inclusion and Exclusion Criteria.

Inclusion Criteria	Exclusion Criteria
1. Patients male or female older than 18 y in good general health	1. Clinical symptoms of irreversible pulpitis requiring endodontic treatment
2. A minimum of 1 deep carious lesion penetrating three-quarters or more into the dentine as identified with the periapical (PA) radiograph; Clinically mICDAS score 4 (Banerjee and Watson 2011)	2. Presence of fistulas or swelling
3. Clinical symptoms of reversible pulpitis	3. Mobile teeth or tenderness to percussion
4. Positive pulp response to electric pulp test or thermal stimulation	4. Anterior teeth with aesthetic concerns
5. No PA changes viewed on PA radiographs	5. Pregnant women, in view of requirements for radiographs
	6. Patients younger than 18 y
	7. Patients unable to give consent