Pain Perception Following Computer-Controlled vs. Conventional Dental Anesthesia

University of Giessen

Status: Completed

Conditions: Pain Perception

Treatments: Device: Computer-controlled Local Anaesthesia (CCLA); Device: Conventional Local Anaesthesia

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05192902

CCLA

Details and patient eligibility

About

This single-blind two-arm randomized control trial (RCT) aims to evaluate the pain perception during and following administration of dental local anaesthesia using two different systems; i.e. computer-controlled (CCLA) and conventional.

Full description

The administration of local anaesthesia (LA) is associated with pain, fear and anxiety. Computer-controlled LA (CCLA) aims to control the administration speed and reduce pain, fear and anxiety. This randomised control trial (RCT) aims to compare the pain perception after CCLA and conventional LA, and it uses dental students as both test and operator group versus an experienced dentist as an additional operator of the LA.

Enrollment: 60 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Dental students at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Giessen enrolled in the course of Local Anaesthesia.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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60 participants in 2 patient groups, including a placebo group

Student-administered

Experimental group

Treatment:

Device: Computer-controlled Local Anaesthesia (CCLA)

Device: Conventional Local Anaesthesia

Dentist-administered

Placebo Comparator group

Treatment:

Device: Computer-controlled Local Anaesthesia (CCLA)

Device: Conventional Local Anaesthesia