Comparative Evaluation of Tricalcium Silicate, Mineral Trioxide Aggregate and Calcium Hydroxide as Dental Pulp Capping Materials: An In-Vivo Study.

Navin Agrawal; Mannu Vikram; Iccha Kumar Maharjan; Vimmi Singh; Sushmita Shrestha; Ashish Shrestha

Volume : VII, Issue : III, March - 2018

Comparative Evaluation of Tricalcium Silicate, Mineral Trioxide Aggregate and Calcium Hydroxide as Dental Pulp Capping Materials: An In-Vivo Study.

Navin Agrawal, Mannu Vikram, Iccha Kumar Maharjan, Vimmi Singh, Sushmita Shrestha, Ashish Shrestha

Abstract :

Introduction: The problem that dentistry has been facing is to integrate the new materials with potential of healing forming hard tissue during dental treatment. Objective: Clinical and radiographic assessment of reparative dentin formation using Tricalcium Silicate (Biodentine), MTA and Ca(OH)₂as pulp capping agents. Methods: 114 asymptomatic carious teeth involving inner third dentine were treated randomly with one of the pulp capping agents and Fuji IX GIC. They were assessed in 2^nd and 6^th month with final restoration (composite/amalgam) in 6 month if asymptomatic. Results: The overall analysis indicated few failure in the Biodentine group (7.9%; n=3) and MTA group (2.6%; n=1) than in the Ca(OH)₂ group (0%; n=0).On comparison between Biodentine and MTA using Chi Square Fisher�s Exact Test (=.615), revealed no significant difference between the group. Conclusion: This study provided evidence to use Biodentine as an indirect pulp-capping agent as compared with MTA and Ca(OH)₂.