Efficacy of Ketorolac Buccal Infiltration on Success Rate of Inferior Alveolar Nerve Block
Status:
Completed
Trial end date:
2015-08-01
Target enrollment:
Participant gender:
Summary
The aim of this study was to determine whether combining an intraoral injection of a non
steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (Ketorolac), in association with conventional inferior
alveolar nerve block, would improve the success rate in teeth with irreversible pulpitis.
Forty adult volunteers with including criteria has been randomly divided into two groups
(n=20). All patients received standard inferior alveolar nerve block injection. After
achieving the lip numbness, one group received a buccal infiltration of Ketorolac and the
other one received a buccal infiltration of Normal Saline as placebo. Any pain during root
canal treatment has been recorded using analog visual scale. The success was considered as
none or mild pain during treatment. The data have been analyzed using Mann-U-Whitney and
chi-squared tests.