Sidrah Shafaat Bokhari, Muzammil Jamil Ahmed Rana, Syeda Shazia Adeel, Maryam Muneer.
A comparison of the human pulpal pain response to blodentine and mineral trioxide aggregate as pulp capping agent.
Pak Oral Dental J Jan ;36(3):464-7.

Biodentine is a calcium-silicate based material that has incited considerable interest in present-day dentistry owing to its resemblance to mineral trioxide aggregate (MTA) and its relevance where MTA is indicated. It has dentin-like mechanical properties, which may be contemplated as an appropriate material for clinical implications of dentin-pulp complex regeneration like pulp capping. The aim of the present study was to compare the human pulpal pain response to Biodentine and MTA as pulp capping agent. Present study was performed on 100 maxillary and mandibular asymptomatic vital permanent molars with extensive caries. Patients were assigned into two groups of fifty each. Patients in group A were pulp capped with Biodentine and patients in group B were pulp capped with MTA. Pain was recorded using Visual Analog Scale after 1, 3 and 6 months follow-up periods. The majority of patients in both the groups presented with lack of pulpal pain response. Statistical analysis using chi-square test (IBM SPSS Version 22) demonstrated no significant difference between both study groups throughout the course of clinical study.

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