Background: Needles are the most feared tools, making anaesthetic injection a worrying practice. Aim: To compare intraosseous (IOA) and needle-free dental anaesthesia (NFA) methods that painless anaesthesia. Design: Twenty patients aged 8-10 years were included in this cross-over study. To determine the anxiety levels and pain experienced by the patients, visual and behavior scales were used. The pulse rate (PR) and opiorphin levels (OL) determined. The Friedman and Wilcoxon signed-rank tests were used. p\<0.05 was considered significant.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
20
doing local and topical anesthesia with two different device
Nagehan Yılmaz
Trabzon, None Selected, Turkey (Türkiye)
Score of scales (wong baker faces pain rating scale)
(0-10) (0= no hurt, 10= hurts worst)
Time frame: one year
Score of scales (face, legs, activity, cry, consolability)
(0-10) (0= relaxed, 10=severe discomfort)
Time frame: one year
Score of scales (frankl behavior rating scale)
(1-4) (1= definitely negative, 4=definitely positive)
Time frame: one year
heart rate (pulse oximeter)
Time frame: one year
level of opiorphin (from saliva samples)
Time frame: one year
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