Colors, Can They Reduce the Dental Anxiety

Selcuk University

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Anxiety; Tooth Extraction Status Nos; Anxiety State

Treatments: Other: Blue color exposure; Other: control; Other: Green color exposure; Other: Red color exposure

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06452836

SelcukU004

Details and patient eligibility

About

The investigator's aim in this study was to evaluate the preoperative anxiety and pain felt during the operation due to exposure to green, red, and blue light. For this purpose, the participants will wear colored glasses before the operation. The investigator will evaluate the patient's anxiety change and the pain she/he feels during the procedure.

Enrollment: 80 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 40 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• ASA 1 and ASA 2 patient population
• not having had a third molar surgery before
• volunteer to participate in the study

Exclusion criteria

• dental phobia
• patients who will be treated under general anesthesia
• refusing the measurements
• not filling out the VAS
• encountering complications during surgery
• operations lasting more than 45 minutes

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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80 participants in 4 patient groups, including a placebo group

Translucent Glasses Group

Placebo Comparator group

Treatment:

Other: control

Green Colored Glasses Group

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: Green color exposure

Red Colored Glasses Group

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: Red color exposure

Blue Colored Glasses Group

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: Blue color exposure