Comparison of Articaine and Prilocaine for Extraction of Maxillary Teeth

Phase 4 Completed 95 enrolled Taibah University

RandomizedParallel-groupSingle-blindTreatment

Summary

Ninety-five patients, aged between 16 and 70 years old, were included in this study. Patients were divided into two groups. Group one received Articaine 4% with 1:00.000 Adrenalines. Group two received Prilocaine with 3% Felypressin (0.03 I.U. per ml). Onset time of anaesthesia was objectively evaluated by using electronic pulp testing.

Timeline

Start: 2017-09-20
Primary completion: 2018-04-20
Completion: 2018-06-20

Publications

Gazal G. Does articaine, rather than prilocaine, increase the success rate of anaesthesia for extraction of maxillary teeth. Saudi J Anaesth. 2020 Jul-Sep;14(3):297-301. doi: 10.4103/sja.SJA_94_20. Epub 2020 May 30.

Drugs

Evaluation	Drug	Modality	Dose	Route
Comparator	Articaine	Other / unclassified	4 %	Other
Comparator	Epinephrine	Other / unclassified	—	Other
Comparator	Felypressin	Protein / enzyme biologic	0.03 iu	Other
Comparator	prilocaine	Small molecule	3 %	Other

Indications

No indication recorded.