Clinical Research Directory

Inclusion Criteria: * Children aged 5-8 years. * Healthy and cooperative children who are able to tolerate the required dental procedures and follow-up visits. * Children requiring full-coverage crown restoration of a primary molar due to extensive or multisurface caries, wide proximal carious lesions * Primary molars requiring pulp therapy followed by full-coverage restoration. * Primary molars with more than one-third of the root structure remaining radiographically. * Children with normal molar relationship. * Children with normal overjet and overbite. * Children without clinically evident malocclusion. * Children without parafunctional oral habits. Exclusion Criteria: * Temporomandibular joint disorders * Apparent facial asymmetry. * Uncontrolled systemic disease or medical condition that may affect participation in the study or the dental treatment. * Current or previous orthodontic treatment that may influence occlusion or bite-force measurements. * Presence of parafunctional habits, such as bruxism or other abnormal occlusal habits.