Table 2.
Patient Demographics and Tooth Information for Patients Presenting for Emergencies
| Temperature at screening | Range, 97°F–98.4°F; mean, 97.5°F |
| Sex | |
| Male | 3 |
| Female | 18 |
| Age (y) | |
| Average | 42 |
| Range | 8–71 |
| Teeth | |
| Anterior | 3 |
| Bicuspid | 4 |
| Molar | 17 |
| Pulpal diagnoses | |
| Reversible pulpitis | 0 |
| Asymptomatic irreversible pulpitis | 0 |
| Symptomatic irreversible pulpitis | 11 |
| Pulp necrosis | 6 |
| Previously initiated | 1 |
| Previously treated | 7 |
| Periapical diagnoses | |
| Normal | 0 |
| Asymptomatic apical periodontitis | 0 |
| Symptomatic apical periodontitis | 20 |
| Acute apical abscess | 5 |
| Chronic apical abscess | 0 |