Shama Asghar, Asghar Ali, Syed Imataiz Ahemed Jafari.
Association between pulp exposure on clinical and radiographic examination in first permanent molars with class ii carious lesions.
Pak Oral Dental J Jan ;35(2):282-5.

This study was conducted to assess association between clinical and radiographic exposure of the pulp in class II carious lesion in first permanent molars. This observational study was carried out in the Operative Department of Bahria Dental College during the period of January -December 2014. Two hundred fifty eight patients with class II carious lesion were examined clinically and radiographically to confirm either pulp was involved or not by a single operator. Data were entered in SPSS (statistical packages of social science, version 17) for descriptive analysis and to check statistically significant relationship between clinical and radiographic pulp exposure. There were 154 males and 104 females. Frequency of left mandibular first molars was 52.7%, high among all molars. This study showed, out of 258 patients, 150 had exposed pulp on clinical examination and 108 were not having exposed pulp on clinical observation. Radiographic analysis of same teeth showed different result. Out of 258 patients, 216 had pulp exposure on radiograph and 42 teeth did not have pulp exposure. About pulp exposure, significant relationship was found between clinical and radiographic examination with p-value 0.000.

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