Subramaniam 2011.
Methods | RCT, parallel‐arm Teeth randomly assigned Conducted in the Department of Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry, The Oxford Dental College, Hospital and Research Centre, Bangalore, India. Operators not mentioned |
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Participants | Number of enrolled children not mentioned, 45 teeth, age range 5 to 9 years | |
Interventions |
Group 1: Pulpectomy (calcium hydroxide + iodoform); n = 15 (2 visits)
Group 2: Pulpectomy (calcium hydroxide + ZOE + iodoform); n = 15 (2 visits)
Group 3: Pulpectomy (ZOE); n = 15 (2 visits)
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Outcomes | Clinical success (no gingival swelling/inflammation/redness, no sinus opening in the oral mucosa or purulent exudate expressed from the gingival margin, no abnormal mobility other than mobility due to normal exfoliation, absence of pain on percussion/tenderness), radiographic success (no evidence of extensive pathological root resorption, reduction or no change in preoperative pathological inter‐radicular or periapical radiolucency (or both), no evidence of development of new postoperative pathological radiolucency involving the succedaneous tooth germ), pain symptoms, tenderness to percussion, swelling, pathological mobility, pathological root resorption, damage in succedaneous follicle: evaluation at 3, 6, 12 and 18 months (at tooth level) | |
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Risk of bias | ||
Bias | Authors' judgement | Support for judgement |
Random sequence generation (selection bias) | Unclear risk | Insufficient information to make a clear judgement |
Allocation concealment (selection bias) | Unclear risk | Insufficient information to make a clear judgement |
Blinding of participants and personnel (performance bias) All outcomes | Unclear risk | Insufficient information to make a clear judgement |
Blinding of clinical outcomes assessment | Unclear risk | Insufficient information to make a clear judgement |
Blinding of radiological outcomes assessment | Unclear risk | Insufficient information to make a clear judgement |
Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias) All outcomes | Low risk | No missing data |
Selective reporting (reporting bias) | Unclear risk | Insufficient information to make a clear judgement |