Effectiveness of Pre-emptive Analgesics on Post-Operative Pain After Stainless Steel Crown Placement On Primary Molars

• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Trial end date: 2023-01-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The aim of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of pre-emptive analgesia using ibuprofen and paracetamol on reducing post-operative pain following the placement of stainless steel crowns on primary molars compared to placebo

• Phase: Phase 4
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Alexandria University
• Treatments: Acetaminophen; Ibuprofen

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

Participant inclusion criteria:

• Age range 5 to 8 years old

• Children without any previous interventional dental experience

• Children free of any systemic disease or special health care needs (ASA 1)

• Children free of any allergies or hypersensitivity reactions to local anesthetics or analgesic drugs

• Positive or definitely positive behaviour during preoperative assessments according to the Frankl Rating Scale (score 3 or 4)

• Parents/caregivers and children who are willing to participate in the study

Tooth inclusion criteria:

• Maxillary first or second primary molar teeth with extensive and/or multisurface caries where other restorations are likely to fail but without pulp exposure

• Absence of clinical and radiographic signs or symptoms of irreversible pulpitis

• Absence of fistula or abscess near the selected tooth clinically and radiographically

• Absence of spontaneous pain

• Absence of pulp exposure

• Absence of pathological mobility by placing the points of a pair of tweezers in an occlusal fossa, and gently rocking the tooth bucco-lingually