Minimal Intervention in Dentistry: A Literature Review on Biodentine as a Bioactive Pulp Capping Material

Table 2

Clinical studies reporting the results of direct pulp capping using Biodentine.

Authors	Type of study	Number of teeth	Follow-up	Age (years)	Success rate
Studies investigating pulp exposures in permanent caries-free teeth
Nowicka et al. [55]	RCT	MTA: 11; BD: 11	6 weeks	19-28	%; %
Nowicka et al. [118]	RCT	BD: 11; MTA: 11; CH: 11; Adhesive: 11	6 weeks	19-32	%; %; %; %
Studies investigating carious pulp exposures in young permanent teeth with immature roots
Katge and Patil [121]	RCT	MTA: 29; BD: 29	12 months	7-9	%; %
Brizuela et al. [122]	RCT	CH: 53; MTA: 56; Biodentine: 60	12 months	7-16	%; %; %
Parinyaprom et al. [123]	RCT	MTA: 27; BD: 28	6-54 months	6-18	%; %
Studies investigating Carious pulp exposures in permanent teeth with mature roots
Linu et al. [124]	Retrospective	BD: 15 cases; MTA: 15 cases	18 months	15-30	%; %
Awawdeh et al. [126]	RCT	BD: 34; MTA: 34	36 months	16-51	%; %
Lipski et al. [127]		BD: 112	12–18 months	11–79	%
Hegde et al. [125]	RCT	BD: 12; MTA: 12	6 months	18-40	%; %

At the final follow-up recall. RCT: randomized controlled study. BD: Biodentine.