Different Methods for Reducing Buccal Infiltration Local Anesthesia Injection Pain

Cairo University (CU)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Dental Caries in Children

Treatments: Device: Buzzy device (cold and vibration); Other: precooling; Other: Flavored Benzocaine topical anesthetic gel 20%; Device: Buzzy device (vibration only)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06290531

CEBD-CU-2023-11-12

Details and patient eligibility

About

Local anesthetic injection is considered one of the most annoying dental procedures. The use of topical anesthesia is considered a routine procedure in the dental clinic especially for children. However, the taste and application procedure of the topical gel may not be pleasant for all children.

The introduction of the Buzzy device is considered a distraction measure in the medical field. Alanazi et al., 2019, studied the effect of using the Buzzy device with cold and vibration compared to the conventional infiltration technique using 30-gauge needle. They concluded that the use of the Buzzy device resulted in better patients' acceptance and significantly lower Wong-Baker scores.

Ballard et al., 2019, mentioned in their systematic review the efficacy of the Buzzy device for pain management during needle-related procedures, they concluded that the use of the device may be promising. Ghaderi et al., 2013, evaluated the effect of cooling the injection site on pain perception before infiltration of local anesthetics. They found that cooling the injection site before infiltration of local anesthetics in the buccal mucosa for 1 min, reduced pain perceived by pediatric patients.

Full description

The investigators used the topical anesthesia, Buzzy device (using vibration only and using cold and vibration) or precooling on pain during buccal infiltration local anesthesia injection.

Enrollment: 96 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 6 to 12 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Children in the mixed dentition stage,
• Age range 6-12 years old,
• Need extraction to a maxillary molar,
• Cooperative and medically free.

Exclusion criteria

• Exclusion will be performed if the parent refused the participation of their children in the research.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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96 participants in 4 patient groups

Buzzy device (cold and vibration)

Experimental group

Treatment:

Device: Buzzy device (cold and vibration)

Buzzy device (vibration only)

Experimental group

Treatment:

Device: Buzzy device (vibration only)

Precooling

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: precooling

Flavored Benzocaine topical anesthetic gel 20%

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Other: Flavored Benzocaine topical anesthetic gel 20%