ArticleBritish dental journal2020
Investigating acute management of irreversible pulpitis: a survey of general dental practitioners in North East England.
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- How decisions are made: Antibiotic stewardship in dentistry.Infection control and hospital epidemiology · 2023Article
- Development and Validation of Oral Health-Related Quality of Life Scale for Patients Undergoing Endodontic Treatment (OHQE) for Irreversible Pulpitis.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Pulpectomy vs. Pulpotomy as Alternative Emergency Treatments for Symptomatic Irreversible Pulpitis-A Multicenter Comparative Randomised Clinical Trial on Patient Perceptions.Clinics and practice · 2023Article
- Attitudes towards and use of dental dams by final-year dental students in Chongqing, China: a cross-sectional study.BMJ open · 2022Article
- Etiological factors commonly related to the need of endodontic treatment in individuals with orofacial clefts.Journal of clinical and experimental dentistry · 2021Article
- An investigation into possible factors that may impact on the potential for inappropriate prescriptions of antibiotics: a survey of general dental practitioners' approach to treating adults with acute dental pain.British dental journal · 2021Article
- Questionnaire surveys - sources of error and implications for design, reporting and appraisal.British dental journal · 2021Article
- Prevalence and Influencing Factors of Rubber Dam Use among Tunisian Dentists: A Cross-Sectional Study.Journal of International Society of Preventive & Community DentistryArticle
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Abstract
Objective To investigate current strategies of acute management of irreversible pulpitis by general dental practitioners.Design A postal survey was sent to a representative sample based on postal code to 180 dentists registered with the General Dental Council in the North East of England. The questionnaire identified general dental practitioners' strategies for the diagnosis and acute management of irreversible pulpitis.Results One hundred and three questionnaires were returned. Irreversible pulpitis was primarily diagnosed from patients' signs and symptoms. There was a high confidence in anaesthetising a tooth with irreversible pulpitis. Treatment was undertaken with either pulpotomy (with a view to single or multi-stage orthograde root canal treatment) or full extirpation in just over half of respondents (51%). Seventy-one percent of respondents reported using different intrapulpal medicaments. Antibiotics were 'frequently' prescribed in cases of irreversible pulpitis by 25% of respondents. For endodontic procedures, dental dam usage was generally low and used 'occasionally' or 'never' by 40% of respondents.Conclusions Antibiotics were being inappropriately prescribed in the management of irreversible pulpitis, transgressing from NICE guidelines on antibiotic usage. Rubber dam use is not universal during the initial management of pulpitis, or during the definitive endodontic procedure, impacting upon the safety and predicility of outcome. Respondents often placed medicaments into the pulp, in spite of a lack of evidence for their efficacy.
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