Comparing Pre-Anesthetic Approaches in Dentistry

Summary

The main purpose of this study is to find out which pre-treatment method works best to reduce pain from dental anesthesia injections in adult patients. Researchers will compare four different approaches: Topical numbing spray (10% lidocaine) Brief cold application (cryotherapy) A combination of both cold application and cooled numbing spray A control group Participants who need a standard local anesthesia injection for their dental treatment will be randomly assigned to one of these four groups. Right after the needle insertion, participants will rate their pain level using a simple visual scale, and their physical reactions will also be observed and scored by the researchers.

Timeline

Start

2026-02-23

Primary completion

2026-07-01

Completion

2026-07-01

Publications

• Results 1. Chandrasekaran, J., et al., Efficacy of painless injection technique-Vibraject-Clinical trial in Chennai, India. 2014. 2. Kumar, M., R. Chawla, and M. Goyal, Topical anesthesia. Journal of Anaesthesiology Clinical Pharmacology, 2015. 31(4): p. 450-456. 3. Ghaderi, F., S. Banakar, and S. Rostami, Effect of pre-cooling injection site on pain perception in pediatric dentistry:"A randomized clinical trial". Dental research journal, 2013. 10(6): p. 790. 4. Aminabadi, N.A. and R.M.Z. Farahani, The effect of pre-cooling the injection site on pediatric pain perception during the administration of local anesthesia. The journal of contemporary dental practice, 2012. 10: p. 43-50. 5. Lakshmanan, L. and V. Ravindran, Efficacy of cryotherapy application on the pain perception during intraoral injection: a randomized controlled trial. International Journal of Clinical Pediatric Dentistry, 2021. 14(5): p. 616. 6. Wiswall, A.T., Palatal anesthesia: comparison of four techniques for decreasing injection discomfort. 2011.

Drugs

Indications

No indication recorded.