Postoperative pain after root canal treatment using manual or rotary protaper system : A randomized clinical trial - part IV / Arig Mohammed Saeed Ashour ; Supervised Nehal Ezzat Thabet , Shaimaa Gawdat

Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Oral and Dental Medicine - Department of Endodontics

The aim of the present study was to compare the postoperative pain after the use of manual and rotary instrumentation of the same proTaper universal system (dentsply maillefer, tulsa dental, TN, USA) in a parallel randomized, controlled clinical trial. Forty - six patients with (vital and non - vital) mandibular posteriors (premolars and molars) without periapical radiolucencies underwent one visit root canal treatment. They were divided into two equal groups with 23 patients pear each, according to the instrumentation technique used group1 (manual protaper files) and group2 (rotary protaper files). Preoperative pain was recorded and postoperative pain was assessed after 6, 12, 24, 48, 72 hours and 7 days using the visual analogue scale (VAS). Results showed that there was no statistically significant difference in the postoperative pain intensity between the two groups preoperatively, after 6 hours and 7 days, but after 12 hours group2 showed higher prevalence of no pain and mild pain while group1 showed higher prevalence of moderate pain. After 24 and 48 hours group2 showed higher prevalence of no pain while group1 showed higher prevalence of mild pain and moderate pain, and after 72 hours showed higher prevalence of no pain while Group1 showed higher prevalence of mild pain

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