Patient-reported outcomes
pain
Conventional therapy and the MINST procedure required comparable average chair-side times (62 ± 11 and 64 ± 14 min for conventional and MINST, respectively). After treatment, none of the patients complained of pain or required pain medication. In addition, 17/40 quadrants of the test group and 19/40 quadrants of the control group demonstrated teeth with post-treatment sensitivity to provocation on compressed air 3 months after treatment (