Pain Perception: on Relationships Between Dental Anxiety and Olfaction

Qassim University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Dental Pain; Dental Anxiety; Essential Oil

Treatments: Other: Placebo; Other: Aromatherapy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05369936

EA/3006/20018

Details and patient eligibility

About

the objective of this study is to evaluate the ability of olfaction in obtaining positive emotional and behavioral responses toward dental anxiety and pain in patients undergoing different dental procedures.

Full description

All patients who meet inclusion criteria of the study will be given a written consent and enrolled into a randomized double-blinded controlled study (investigator and patients are blinded about the study). Patients will be divided into lavender and control groups. Patients in lavender group will subjected 2 % lavender vapors. In control group, patients will inhale distal water vapors

Enrollment: 350 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 19 to 25 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. Adult females over 18 years,
2. Attending morning sessions of clinics (9 am)
3. Liable for administration of local anesthesia, tooth preparation either for filling procedures or crown preparations, endodontic treatment, teeth extraction, or subgingival scaling

Exclusion criteria

1. Males
2. Females who had allergies, bronchial asthma, common cold, pulmonary diseases, migraine, or taking antidepressants, anxiolytic drugs, opioids, or other medications that affect our results

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Quadruple Blind

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350 participants in 2 patient groups, including a placebo group

Lavender group

Experimental group

Description:

On the day of the lavender group, after filling the first phase questionnaire, 20 drops of the lavender oil will be added to the electrical aromatherapy vaporizer near the patient's chair at a distance of 20 cm in the waiting room. After 20 minutes, the second phase questionnaire will be given to the patient, and then the patient will be transformed to dental clinics in which the lavender vaporizer will be placed near the dental unit at a distance of 20 cm. The vaporizer will be also prepared by adding 20 drops of the lavender which will be added added every 20 minutes until the dental sitting will be finalized, and the third questionnaire will be answered. At home, the patients will be asked to pour 3 drops of the lavender on a pad and inhale it for 5 minutes from 10 cm distance every one hour until they attend on the next day to answer the fourth questionnaire.

Treatment:

Other: Aromatherapy

Placebo group

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

The plain distal water vapors will be used as placebo, the good ventilation of the waiting room and clinics will be performed to ensure that the lavender scent is completely removed from the environment. The patients will inhale the vapors of the plain distal water

Treatment:

Other: Placebo