Cohort Comparison of Dental Nerve Block With Other Forms of Analgesia in Alleviating the Pain of Toothache

Status

Completed

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT01268436

Acronym

Cohort Dental

Enrollment

Registered

2010-12-30

Start date

2010-01-31

Completion date

2012-11-30

Last updated

2014-03-24

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Conditions

Tooth Pain

Brief summary

Toothache is a common source of pain for Emergency Department patients. There are several common ways to control the pain of toothache. But we do not know if any one of them is more effective than another. It is also possible that how we take care of your pain in the Emergency Department will influence the level of pain you experience one or two days from now. This study seeks to answer these questions.

Interventions

None listed

Study design

Observational model

COHORT

Time perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

18 Years to No maximum

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

* \> 18 years, pain in any tooth

Exclusion criteria

* duration of pain \> 96 hours * oral trauma within 96 hours of presentation * facial or neck swelling * pericoronitis * visual impairment to less than finger counting within three feet

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame	Description
Visual Analog Pain Scale	Before and After treatment of tooth pain	Is there any change in patient report of pain using the Visual Analog Pain Scale before and after treatment.

Secondary

Measure	Time frame	Description
Need for additional treatment	while in the Emergency Department	Does patient require addtional/repeated analgesia or rescue medication?

Countries

United States

Outcome results