Clinical trial NCT01201668: DPBRN Persistent Pain and Root Canal Therapy
Official title: Persistent Pain and Root Canal Therapy
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: Root Canal Therapy
Persistent Tooth Pain
Keywords: post-operative pain
root canal therapy
feasibility
post-surgical persistent pain
Lead sponsor: Dental Practice-Based Research Network
Sponsor class: NETWORK
Collaborators: name: National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR)
name: HealthPartners Institute
name: Kaiser Permanente
name: Permanente Dental Associates Group, Oregon
name: University of Copenhagen
name: University of Florida
name: University of Alabama at Birmingham
name: University of Minnesota
First posted: 2010-09-14
Enrollment: 500
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 19
Maximum age (years): 70
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Observational model: COHORT
Time perspective: CROSS_SECTIONAL
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: The participants directly involved in this study are the patients who have sought dental treament in the practitioner-investigators' practices. The practitioner-investigators will be endodontists and general dentists.

Brief summary: The purpose of this study is to document by survey the occurence of tooth pain present 3 months and 6 months after root canal therapy in the patients recruited for the DPBRN "Peri-operative tooth pain" study. This study will access the feasibility of obtaining 3 month and 6 month follow-up data on the patient enrolled in the DPBRN "Peri-operative tooth pain" study.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* 19-70 years old
* Permanent adult tooth requiring its first non-surgical root canal therapy
* patients with more than 1 tooth requiring root canal therapy are eligible, but only the first root canal procedure will be included to avoid problems of correlation within patients

Exclusion Criteria:

* evidence of prior root canal therapy, including iatrogenic, but not disease-induced pulp access of the tooth being considered
* patients with obvious cognitive impairments (e.g., past stroke with communication deficits, dementia,mental disability)
* patients unable to return for 6 month follow-up

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Locations:
city: Birmingham
country: United States
facility: University of Alabama at Birmingham
state: Alabama
city: Gainesville
country: United States
facility: University of Florida College of Dentistry
state: Florida
city: Minneapolis
country: United States
facility: Health Partners Dental Group
state: Minnesota
city: Minneapolis
country: United States
facility: Health Partners Research Foundation
state: Minnesota
city: Minneapolis
country: United States
facility: University of Minnesota
state: Minnesota
city: Portland
country: United States
facility: Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research
state: Oregon
city: Portland
country: United States
facility: Permanente Denrtal Associates
state: Oregon
city: Copenhagen
country: Denmark
facility: University of Copenhagen Royal Dental College
Study officials:
affiliation: University of Minnesota
name: Donald R Nixdorf, DDS, MS
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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