Effects of Benzocaine 20% Topical Anesthetic and no Topical Agent on Pain Perception During Intra-oral Injections

Nurain Rehman

Status

Completed

Conditions

Anesthesia

Treatments

Procedure: No topical anesthesia

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT03261115

NR3517

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this randomized controlled trial. is to test the efficacy of topical anesthesia against the use of no topical agent during buccal infiltration in maxillary anterior teeth. The rationale behind this comparison is to evaluate the practical, clinical outcome of not using any topical agent if in fact topical anesthesia does not reduce pain as reported by various studies and if consequently its usage was to be discontinued.

Full description

The clinical implication of topical anesthesia and placebo being the same is to not use either of them prior to LA administration in dentistry. This clinical approach has rarely been studied and this study aims to compare the effects of the use of topical anesthesia against the use of no topical agent prior to buccal infiltration in maxillary anterior teeth.

Enrollment

100 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Above the age of 18
Males and females both
Participants requiring extraction of maxillary anterior teeth
Intact or minimally restored anterior teeth
Patients with American Society of Anesthesiologists physical status of 1 or 2

Exclusion criteria

Participants with physical American Society of Anesthesiologists physical status of 3 or 4
Showing signs of inflammation in the area to be injected
Having known allergy to any of the agents used in the study
Used anti- anxiety drugs or sedatives in the past two weeks
Have taken analgesics on the day of data collection