Aromatherapy With Lavender Essential Oil as a Complementary Treatment for the Control of Dental Anxiety

Universidad Autónoma Benito Juárez de Oaxaca

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Dental Anxiety

Treatments: Other: Lavender aromatherapy; Other: Sham aromatherapy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04285385

19PEC001FO

Details and patient eligibility

About

Dental anxiety is a common problem in dental care, the aim of this protocol is to evaluate the effect of lavender for the control of anxiety during a surgical dental extraction.

Enrollment: 50 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 40 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Volunteer to take part in the study
• Healthy patients
• Patients signing the informed consent
• Patients who need surgical removal of third molars

Exclusion criteria

• Hypertensive patients
• Patients with nasal congestion problems
• Patients allergic to lavender.
• Patients under treatment with anti depressants

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Triple Blind

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50 participants in 2 patient groups

Aromatherapy

Experimental group

Description:

0.10 ml of lavender essential oil 30 minutes prior surgery

Treatment:

Other: Lavender aromatherapy

Sham Aromatherapy

Sham Comparator group

Description:

0.10 ml mineral oil 30 minutes prior surgery

Treatment:

Other: Sham aromatherapy