Using Anesthetic Gel Patches to Reduce Pain of Palatal Injection

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2020-02-19
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Local anesthetic administration step is mandatory step for controlling pain before dental procedures. The aim of this study was to compare effectiveness of topical Benzocaine 18% gel patch form and Benzocaine 20% topical gel in reducing pain during injection of local anesthesia in children receiving dental treatment.

• Phase: Phase 1/Phase 2
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Dina Youssef Attia
• Treatments: Anesthetics; Benzocaine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Children ranging in age from 6 to 8 years.

2. Healthy children with no contraindications of use of local anesthetics.

3. Cooperative behavior according to Frankl's scale scores 3 or 4. (appendix I)

4. Patients needing dental interventions on both sides in the same arch that will require palatal or inferior alveolar nerve block injections.

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Uncooperative children or with intellectual or physical disabilities or medical conditions.

2. Children with acute pain or emergency visits.

3. Children with previous negative dental experience.

4. Children receiving premedications or analgesics 48 hours before testing.

5. children/parents not willing to participate.