RESULTS Application of the Oral Health Impact Profile ( OHIP ) demonstrated that disease of pulpal origin affects quality of life with moderate severity , primarily through physical pain and psychological discomfort , and that RCT results in broad improvement of quality of life .
Satisfaction with RCT is extremely high , but cost is the primary reason for dissatisfaction .
Anxiety and fear affect RCT patients , profoundly influencing their behaviors , including treatment avoidance , and their pain experience .
Fear of pain is " fair " to " very much " prior to RCT .
Pain is widely feared , disliked , and remembered ; however , disease of pulpal origin generally produces moderate , but not severe pain .
RCT causes a dramatic decrease in pain prevalence and severity over the week following treatment .
Survival rates of teeth after RCT are very high ; complication rates are low .
Cost is a barrier to RCT , but initial costs , lifetime costs , cost effectiveness , cost utility , and cost benefit all compare extremely well to the alternatives involving replacement using implants or fixed prostheses .
INTRODUCTION Root canal treatment ( RCT ) success criteria inform us of the path to bony healing and of prognostic factors , but tell little about how the patient perceives , feels , or values RCT .
Patients choose , undergo , and pay for RCT , they live with the result , and inform their community .
The purpose of this narrative review was to appraise patient-centered outcomes of initial non-surgical RCT and nonsurgical retreatment , in adults .
Quality of life and satisfaction of patients after nonsurgical primary root canal treatment provided by undergraduate students, graduate students and endodontic specialists.
AIM ( i ) To assess the impact of  primary root canal treatment  on the perceived quality of life amongst a cohort of Jordanian patients , ( ii ) to assess this cohort 's satisfaction of their primary root canal treatment , and ( iii ) to evaluate the association of the level of training and experience of clinicians with these two parameters . METHODOLOGY A systematic r and om sample of 302 subjects was selected from patients who attended undergraduate , graduate and specialty clinics of Jordan University of Science and Technology . Participants were interviewed before and two weeks after completion of root canal treatment . The study instrument included the Oral Health Impact Profile question naire ( Dugas et al. 2002 ) and seven semantic differential scales . Data analyses included descriptive statistics and nonparametric analyses . RESULTS More than 90 % of subjects reported improvements in the sense of taste , pain , eating , altering food temperature , self-consciousness , waking up during sleep , interruption of meals , difficulty to relax and difficulty to sleep after root canal treatment . There was no significant difference in terms of improvement amongst patients treated by specialists , graduate students or undergraduate students . The overall semantic differential score of intraoperative pain , pleasantness , chewing ability and general satisfaction was about 8 . Satisfaction of root canal treatment by specialists was higher in terms of time involved , intraoperative pain , pleasantness and general satisfaction than those treatments by undergraduate students . Patients treated by specialist were least satisfied with the treatment cost compared to those patients treated by graduate or undergraduate students . CONCLUSIONS The impact of root canal treatment on the quality of life was apparent . Satisfaction with root canal treatment approximates 8 on the semantic differential scale with preference for specialists over dental students
RESULTS Application of the Oral Health Impact Profile ( OHIP ) demonstrated that disease of pulpal origin affects quality of life with moderate severity , primarily through physical pain and psychological discomfort , and that RCT results in broad improvement of quality of life .
Satisfaction with RCT is extremely high , but cost is the primary reason for dissatisfaction .
Anxiety and fear affect RCT patients , profoundly influencing their behaviors , including treatment avoidance , and their pain experience .
Fear of pain is " fair " to " very much " prior to RCT .
Pain is widely feared , disliked , and remembered ; however , disease of pulpal origin generally produces moderate , but not severe pain .
RCT causes a dramatic decrease in pain prevalence and severity over the week following treatment .
Survival rates of teeth after RCT are very high ; complication rates are low .
Cost is a barrier to RCT , but initial costs , lifetime costs , cost effectiveness , cost utility , and cost benefit all compare extremely well to the alternatives involving replacement using implants or fixed prostheses .
INTRODUCTION Root canal treatment ( RCT ) success criteria inform us of the path to bony healing and of prognostic factors , but tell little about how the patient perceives , feels , or values RCT .
Patients choose , undergo , and pay for RCT , they live with the result , and inform their community .
The purpose of this narrative review was to appraise patient-centered outcomes of initial non-surgical RCT and nonsurgical retreatment , in adults .