title: Clinical and radiographic comparison of various medicaments used for pulpotomy in primary molars: A randomized clinical trial.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To evaluate and compare the efficacy of ferric sulfate, glutaraldehyde, and mineral trioxide aggregate (MTA) as pulpotomy medicaments in primary molars.
  
  
  METHODS
  This was a perspective randomized clinical trial. A total of 90 molars from 42 children aged 4-8 years were selected for pulpotomy procedure. Teeth were randomly divided into three equal groups of 30 teeth each. Teeth in Group I were intended to be treated with ferric sulfate, Group II were intended to be treated with buffered glutaraldehyde and Group III with MTA. All the molars were evaluated clinically at 24 h and both clinically and radio graphically at 1, 3, and 6 months. The observations were statistically analyzed using Chi-square test and Fisher's exact test.
  
  
  RESULTS
  After 1 month, there was no clinical finding observed in all the three groups. At 3 months postoperative evaluation, 13.3% of teeth in Group I and 12.5% of teeth in Group II had mobility. At 6 months interval, pain and sinus formation each was noted in 9.1% of primary teeth in Group I while periodontal ligament widening was reported in 66.7% of teeth in Group I and 85.7% of teeth in Group II.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  MTA exhibited overall best results as pulpotomy agent for primary molars followed by 15.5% ferric sulfate, whereas 2% buffered glutaraldehyde was found to be least effective as a pulpotomy agent.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pedodontics, MM College of Dental Sciences and Research, Mullana, Haryana, India.
authors.forename: Prachi
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Goyal
authors.affiliation: Department of Pedodontics, DAV Dental College, Yamuna Nagar, Haryana, India.
authors.forename: I K
authors.initials: IK
authors.lastname: Pandit
authors.affiliation: Department of Pedodontics, DAV Dental College, Yamuna Nagar, Haryana, India.
authors.forename: Neeraj
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Gugnani
authors.affiliation: Department of Pedodontics, DAV Dental College, Yamuna Nagar, Haryana, India.
authors.forename: Monica
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gupta
authors.affiliation: Department of Public Health Dentistry, MM College of Dental Sciences and Research, Mullana, Haryana, India.
authors.forename: Richa
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Goel
authors.affiliation: Department of Public Health Dentistry, Rayat and Bahra Dental College and Hospital, Mohali, Punjab, India.
authors.forename: Ramandeep Singh
authors.initials: RS
authors.lastname: Gambhir
keywords: Ferric sulfate; glutaraldehyde; mineral trioxide aggregate; primary molars; pulpotomy