To Evaluate the Efficacy of Two Different Obturating Procedures for Root Canal Treatment

Abstract

In order to prevent bias in the study, a few exclusion criteria were applied, such as excluding teeth having repeated root canals and morphological abnormalities. Group 1 employed the cold lateral condensation approach for obturation, while Group 2 employed the warm vertical condensation technique. The data was statistically analyzed using SPSS version 11.0 for Windows. The significance of the data was assessed using the Student's t-test and the Chi-square test. A statistically significant p-value was regarded as one that was 0.05 or less. Group I had a mean percentage of 97.21% gutta-percha filled, while group II had a mean percentage of 92.85% gutta-percha filled. When using the warm vertical condensation method as opposed to the cold lateral condensation method, there were fewer voids. In comparison to the cold lateral obturation technique, the warm vertical condensation technique results in fewer voids.