Differences in clinical approaches of endodontists and general dentists when performing non‐surgical root canal treatment: A prospective cohort study from the National Dental Practice‐Based Research Network <scp>PREDICT</scp> Project
Bibliographic record
Abstract
AIM: Information regarding differences between general dentists (GDs) and endodontists in their daily practices is limited. The aim of this prospective cohort clinical study was to compare the details of clinical approaches of GDs and endodontists when performing non-surgical root canal treatments (NSRCT). METHODOLOGY: The study was conducted among 153 practitioners (104 GDs and 49 endodontists) in the National Dental Practice-Based Research Network in the United States who performed NSRCT on at least one of 1705 patients. Practitioners completed postoperative forms to document procedural data. Bivariate and multivariable analyses were performed to adjust for the potential effect of confounders. Two different multivariable models were tested to eliminate the impact of unstable variables. RESULTS: or chlorhexidine irrigations, ultrasonic/sonic irrigant activation, electronic apex locator and radiographs for working length determination, warm vertical condensation and lateral condensation techniques for obturation, report adequately dense obturation without voids, and to complete NSRCT in a single visit (p ≤ .01). Endodontists were significantly less likely to use lubricants and to report unacceptable obturation length (≥2 mm short or extended beyond the radiographic apex) (p ≤ .01). CONCLUSIONS: Based on actual clinical data, this study observed major differences between GDs and endodontists in their clinical approaches when performing NSRCTs. Further studies are needed to assess the effect of these differences on the outcome of NSRCTs.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".