Anesthetic Efficacy of Gow-Gates Versus Conventional Inferior Alveolar Nerve Block Techniques

Mashhad University of Medical Sciences

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Anesthesia; Reaction; Pain

Treatments: Procedure: Type of block injection

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01329874

89549

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine whether Gow Gates block injection is more effective than conventional alveolar nerve block in anesthetising mandibular molars with acute pulpitis.

Full description

Pain management and adequate anesthesia are of critical importance for the endodontist. Traditionally, mandibular teeth are anesthetized via inferior alveolar nerve block (IAN). However, this technique provides a marginal success rate of 19-56% in patients with irreversible pulpitis.Gow Gates technique introduced in 1973 for anesthetizing of mandibular molars with more accuracy, success and safety.

Enrollment: 80 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 12 to 50 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Mandibular molars with acute irreversible pulpitis

Exclusion criteria

• Unhealthy patients
• Patients who had taken pain killer less than 4 hours before appointment

Trial design

80 participants in 2 patient groups

Gow gates ,conventional block injection

No Intervention group

Description:

Patients will be selected from a group with acute irreversible pulpitis in mandibular molars. Half of the patients randomly selected for receiving gow gates block injection and half will receive traditional inferior block injection by 3.6 ml Lidocaine plus epinephrine.Teeth with no response to anesthetizing will be randomly divided into two group of either buccal or lingual infiltration.

Treatment:

Procedure: Type of block injection

Buccal infiltration, Lingual infiltration

No Intervention group