Females, young adults report higher pain score with local anesthesia in dentistry: Study
Researchers have found in a new study that female subjects and the younger age group were more likely to report higher pain scores during local anesthesia administration regardless of the type of distraction used.
The study is published in the BMC Oral Health Journal.
Different distraction techniques have been used in dentistry and have shown great results in managing anxious pediatric patients specially during local anesthesia administration. One of the recently invented techniques is virtual reality.
Therefore, Osama M. Felemban and colleagues from the Pediatric Dentistry Department, Faculty of Dentistry, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia carried out the present study with the purpose to evaluate the effect of virtual reality distraction on anxiety and pain during buccal infiltration anesthesia in pediatric patients.
The authors included healthy, cooperative 6- to 12-year-old children requiring buccal infiltration anesthesia, all of whom were randomly assigned to a test or control group. A total of 50 subjects were included with a mean age of 8.4 ± 1.46 years. In the test group, local anesthesia was administered while the subjects were watching a cartoon video using virtual reality goggles. While, subjects in the control group watched a cartoon video on a screen during the administration of local anesthesia.
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