Effect of Sufentanil on the Rate of Anesthesia

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2011-10-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The aim of this study was to compare the effects of Lidocaine/epinephrine with and without Sufentanil on the rate of anesthesia after supplemental intraligamentary injection (PDL) in teeth with irreversible pulpitis.

• Phase: Phase 2
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Islamic Azad University, Tehran
• Treatments: Epinephrine; Epinephryl borate; Lidocaine; Racepinephrine; Sufentanil

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• patients in the age group of 18-65 years old

• healthy (ASA I, II)

• patients with first or second mandibular molars who need endodontic treatment

• vital tooth without a history of past endodontic treatment

• patients with clinical evidence of irreversible Pulpits with moderate to severe pain

• patients who signed consent form

• patients numbness at the lateral edge of the lips after inferior alveolar injection (INA) and those with positive respond to maximum output of pulp tester after INA.

Exclusion Criteria:

• pregnant or nursing

• necrotic tooth

• patients with allergy or contraindication toward non-opioid or opioid painkillers such as aspirin or NSAIDs

• Patients who have taken opioid or non opioid or steroid pain killers, antidepressants or sedative drugs in the past 48 hours

• patient with infectious diseases

• patient with moderate to sever periodontal disease

• those without numbness at the lateral edge of the lips after inferior alveolar injection (INA), and those do not respond to maximum output of pulp tester after INA.