Effectiveness of Sodium Bicarbonate Buffered Anaesthetic Solution on Pain During Injection

• Status: Active, not recruiting
• Trial end date: 2022-09-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

This study will test the effectiveness of addition of Sodium Bicarbonate as a buffering agent to the anaesthetic solution on minimizing the pain of injection and increasing the onset time and potency of the anaesthetic solution in children

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Alexandria University
• Treatments: Anesthetics

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Age range from 5 - 7 years.

• Children free of any systemic disease or special health care need (ASA I).

• No previous bad dental experience.

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

• Patients whom their lower primary molars bilaterally are indicated for pulpotomy.

• Patients whom their parents will give consent to participate.

• Patients who give multiple reliable responses while using the transcutaneous electric nerve stimulator device.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Active sites of pathosis in area of injection that could affect anaesthetic assessment.

• History of allergy to local anaesthesia.

• Root resorption affecting more than one third of the root length.

• Fractured crowns due to trauma.

• Clinical signs and symptoms of pulp degeneration such as swelling or sinus tracts

• Radiographic evidence of periapical or interradicular radiolucency

• Non restorable crowns.

• Signs of mobility.

• Ankylosed roots.