Can a cold blast save your tooth? new trial investigates cryotherapy for deep cavities
NCT ID NCT07303010
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study looks at whether applying cold (cryotherapy) during a pulpotomy—a procedure that removes infected nerve tissue from a tooth—improves the chance of saving the tooth. Researchers will compare treatment success in 140 healthy adults with deep cavities. Success means no pain or signs of infection on X-rays.
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Study facts
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- Phase
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Early phase 1
The earliest testing in people: a first look at safety, in a very small group.
- Participants
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About 140 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Expected to start
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Dec 2025
An estimate. Start dates often move.
- Expected to finish
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Dec 2035
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
The registry's catch-all category, for sponsors it does not file as a company, a government agency, or a research network.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
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18 years and older
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Accepted
You do not need to have the condition being studied to take part.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: * Healthy patients aged at least 18 years old with deep or extremely deep carious lesions in mature permanent posterior teeth diagnose with asymptomatic or symptomatic irreversible pulpitis. Diagnoses are confirmed using Electric Pulp Test(EPT) and cold test. Pulpal and periapical diagnoses are based on terminology from the American Association of Endodontists (AAE, 2013). * Teeth are restorable with direct composite restoration. Exclusion Criteria: * Teeth with subgingival caries and/or clinical attachment loss more than 3 mm and probing depth more than 4 mm. * Negative responses to pulp sensibility tests, presence of sinus tracts, swelling, non-restorable crowns, immature roots, or no pulp exposure following complete caries removal in case of pre-operative diagnosis as asymptomatic irreversible pulpitis. * Patients with systemic diseases involving bleeding disorders such as hemophilia, Von Willebrand disease, platelet disorders. And patients under taking all kind of anticoagulant and anti-platelet. * Known allergies to non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs). * Pregnant or lactating patients. * Teeth with pulpal obliteration. * Necrotic pulp is found after access opening. * Bleed cannot be stopped within 8 minutes after full pulpotomy
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Conditions
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Yala Hospital
Yala, 95000, Thailand
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