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Pain experience and effect on heart rate and blood pressure for patients receiving local anesthetic injection with a syringe and needle and computerized injection in dental fillings

Pain perception and vital signs during inferior alveolar nerve block with conventional syringe versus computer controlled anaesthesia delivery technique- a randomized split mouth clinical trial

Status
Active, not recruiting
Phases
Phase 4
Study type
Interventional
Source
CTRI
Registry ID
CTRI/2018/04/013073
Enrollment
108
Registered
2018-04-05
Start date
Unknown
Completion date
Unknown
Last updated
2021-11-24

For informational purposes only — not medical advice. Sourced from public registries and may not reflect the latest updates. Terms

Conditions

Health Condition 1: null- Contralateral vital mandibular molars requiring restorative treatment in patients aged 20-45 years

Interventions

Intervention1: Conventional local anesthetic delivery and computer controlled local anesthesia delivery system: Inferior alveolar nerve block using 4% Articaine hydrochloride with 1:200000 epinephrine

Sponsors

Dr Neha Deshpande
Lead Sponsor
Dr Dipali Shah
Collaborator

Eligibility

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: Patients willing to participate in the study. Age group : 20 - 45 years . Vital mandibular molars requiring restorative treatment with reversible pulpitis. Patients who require local anesthetic injections for restorative treatment in 2 contralateral mandibular first molars. Patients would not have undergone any previous dental local anesthetic experience, in order to be not influenced by a positive or a negative memory. Patient would not have taken any medication for the past 2 weeks.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: Patients not willing to participate in the study Pregnancy History of allergy to the components of the local anesthetic solutions Patients who received local anesthesia before the experiment Subjects with systemic diseases Patients on any kind of medication Patients with psychiatric illness Unco-operative patients Active sites of infection in the area of injection.

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frame
Pain perception using the Heft-Parker visual analog scaleTimepoint: 30 seconds after the start of injection i.e while injecting

Secondary

MeasureTime frame
Effect on vital signs: systolic diastolic blood pressure,pulse, oxygen saturationTimepoint: Baseline, at the start of injection, 30 seconds during the injection, at the end of injection

Countries

India

Contacts

Public ContactDr Neha Deshpande

Sinhgad dental college and hospital, Pune

dipali.nagda@yahoo.com9890195100

Outcome results

None listed

Source: CTRI (via WHO ICTRP) · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026