Clinical Radiographic and Histopathologic Evaluation of Propolis and Sodium Hypochlorite Pulpotomies in Primary Molars

Abstract

Vital pulpotomy procedure has always been the topic of debate. Different medicaments have been suggested in the dental literature to be used in vital pulpotomies. The aim of the current study was to evaluate clinical, radiographic and histopathologic effects of both sodium hypochlorite and propolis pulpotomies in primary molars. The present study was divided into 2 parts the first is a randomized controlled trial using split mouth variant to evaluate the effect of sodium hypochlorite and propolis pulpotomies clinically and radiographically and the second part was a histologic study to evaluate the effects of these materials histopathologically. A total of 70 healthy children participated in the study, Participants were examined clinically and radiographically. Sixty of them participated in the first part of the study, with the following inclusion criteria: 1. Aged from 4 to 7 2. Cooperative children Summary __________________________________________________________ 201 3. Having at least 2 mandibular primary molars with nearly equal carious involvement requiring pulpotomy