EFFECTIVENESS OF TWO GENERATIONS OF ROTARY FILES VERSUS MANUAL FILES IN PULPECTOMY OF PRIMARY MOLARS (RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL)

Nayer Ahmed Abdel Rahman, 9 th Lotfy El Edwar St., Kafr Abdo, Alexandria, Egypt, 01277375353, dr.nayer85@gmail.com 1 EFFECTIVENESS OF TWO GENERATIONS OF ROTARY FILES VERSUS MANUAL FILES IN PULPECTOMY OF PRIMARY MOLARS (RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL) Nayer A. Abdel Rahman 1* MSc, Aly A. Sharaf PhD, Laila M. El-Habashy PhD 1. Master in Pediatric Dentistry, Department of Pediatric Dentistry and Dental Public Health, Faculty of Dentistry, Alexandria University, Alexandria Egypt 2. Professor of Pediatric Dentistry, Department of Pediatric Dentistry and Dental Public Health, Faculty of Dentistry, Alexandria University, Alexandria Egypt *Corresponding author INTRODUCTION In pediatric dentistry, the treatment duration plays a significant role in determining the success of the procedure. The decreased treatment period decreases the anxiety levels in children thereby creating positive behavioral attitude. With the goal of accomplishing a high quality treatment within a limited period, use of rotary instrumentation had been introduced in pediatric dentistry (1). Kedo-S rotary files are exclusively developed pediatric rotary files with four generations available designed by Dr. Ganesh Jeevanandan (2). This study was conducted to comparatively record the instrumentation time between two generations of KedoS files (3rd and 4th generations) and manual H-files groups and to assess the anxiety levels in children using Venham’s Clinical Anxiety Scale (VCAS).