Aromatherapy With Lavender Essential Oil as a Complementary Treatment for the Control of Dental Anxiety

Aromatherapy With Lavender Essential Oil as a Complementary Treatment for the Control of Dental Anxiety in Patients Requiring Third Molar Surgery of the University Autonomus Benito Juarez of Oaxaca UABJO School of Dentistry

Status

UNKNOWN

Phases

Study type

Interventional

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT04285385

Enrollment

Registered

2020-02-26

Start date

2020-03-31

Completion date

2020-05-31

Last updated

2020-02-26

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Conditions

Dental Anxiety

Keywords

aromatherapy, lavender, anxiety

Brief summary

Dental anxiety is a common problem in dental care, the aim of this protocol is to evaluate the effect of lavender for the control of anxiety during a surgical dental extraction.

Interventions

OTHERLavender aromatherapy

0.10 ml of lavender essential oil

OTHERSham aromatherapy

0.10 ml of mineral oil

Study design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Intervention model

PARALLEL

Primary purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

TRIPLE (Subject, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

18 Years to 40 Years

Healthy volunteers

Yes

Inclusion criteria

* Volunteer to take part in the study * Healthy patients * Patients signing the informed consent * Patients who need surgical removal of third molars

Exclusion criteria

* Hypertensive patients * Patients with nasal congestion problems * Patients allergic to lavender. * Patients under treatment with anti depressants

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame	Description
Corah	45 minutes before dental treatment	Corah's Dental Anxiety Scale (1-25). Non anxiety (0-8), moderate (9-12), high (13-14), severe (over 15)
Cortisol	5 minutes Before aromatherapy	Salivary Cortisol Testing (ng/mL)

Secondary

Measure	Time frame	Description
Heart rate	5 minutes Before aromatherapy	The speed of the heartbeat measured by the number of contractions of the heart per minute
Respiratory rate	5 minutes Before aromatherapy	The number of breaths per minute.
Arterial pressure	5 minutes Before aromatherapy	The pressure of circulating blood on the walls of blood vessels. (mm/Hg) sphingomanometer OMRON model HEM-7114

Contacts

Primary ContactRafael Torres, MD PhD

rtorres.cat@uabjo.mx(52) (951) 1448276

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026