Comparative Study of Electrosurgery, Mineral Trioxide Aggregate and Formocresol Pulpotomy Techniques in Primary Teeth

Abstract

The aim of this study was to compare the clinical success and failure rates for electro surgery (ES), MTA and formocresol pulpotomy in primary teeth. Clinical evaluation during electro surgery at 6, 12 and 18 month interval follow up period were shown of the work. This study illustrated comparison of clinical success rate among three pulpotomy types at 6, 12 and 18 months interval. Electro surgery pulpotomy showed maximum 89.29% success rate at 12 months, followed by MTA pulpotomy showed 74.00% success rates at 12 months. On the other hand, formocresol pulpotomy showed 67.50% success rates at 12 months although this decreased toward success rate of 36.67% at 18 months follow-up intervals. A significant variation within success rate was noted between the three types of pulpotomy at follow-up intervals of 6, 12, and 18 months. Comparison of clinical failure among three pulpotomy methods electro surgery pulpotomy showed the lowest 10.71% failure rate at 12 months. It showed highly significant differences in failure rates among electro surgery, MTA and formocresol pulpotomy at follow-up intervals of 6, 12, and 18 months. Considerable variation in clinical success rates electro surgery pulpotomy showed the highest average clinical success rate of 67.38% followed by MTA pulpotomy 57.33% at all follow up intervals when, formocresol pulpotomy showed the lowest clinical success rate at 50.83%. On the other hand, compared with electro surgery, MTA and formocresol pulpotomy showed an overall clinical failure rate of 32.62%, 42.67% and 49.17% respectively. In conclusion, electro surgery and MTA pulpotomy emerge to be acceptable substitute to pharmacotherapeutic pulpotomy.