Post-operative pain in molar teeth with symptomatic apical periodontitis using cryotreated neem extract and cryotreated 2.5% sodium hypochlorite: A randomised double-blinded clinical trial

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Ruchi Vashisht, Umesh Kumar, Ashish Kumar Kakkar, and three colleagues test chilled irrigation for root canal pain in this two thousand twenty-six randomized, double-blinded trial. Pain after root canal treatment remains a key concern. The trial enrolled one hundred eight patients with painful apical periodontitis in molar teeth, all treated in a single visit. Four irrigation groups compared room-heat against chilled sodium hypochlorite, and room-heat against chilled neem extract, a plant choice.

Pain was scored on a visual scale at twenty-four hours, forty-eight hours, and seven days. Chilled irrigants produced clearly lower pain at the first two time points than their room-heat matches. Neem extract performed about as well as chilled sodium hypochlorite. The authors conclude chilled neem extract is a biocompatible irrigant for cutting pain after treatment, pairing cooling with a natural product patients may prefer over bleach.

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Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC13252313