The Effectiveness of Soft Tissue Vibration in Reducing Pain of Local Anesthesia Injection in Adult Dental Patients

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2019-09-05
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The clinical trial will compare pain perception during dental local anesthesia injections with and without using soft tissue vibration device prior to injection. The primary goal is to test the effectiveness of such devices in pain/discomfort reduction during intraoral local anesthesia injections in various techniques (infiltration and block anesthesia).

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

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Riyadh Colleges of Dentistry and Pharmacy
• Treatments: Anesthetics; Epinephrine; Epinephryl borate; Lidocaine; Racepinephrine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) physical status class I

• Planned for multiple dental treatments in the maxilla and mandible bilaterally

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patients <18 years old

• Pregnant ladies

• Smokers and alcoholics

• Patients on medications

• Drug abusers

• Never received dental treatment under local anesthesia before

• Patients with an acute infection with or without fever

• Patients with preoperative pain