The study aims to assess the use of intraligamental local anesthetic injection compared to buccal infiltration for extraction of maxillary molars suffering grade II mobility in terms of pain control and extraction duration.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
DOUBLE
Enrollment
60
The intraligamental technique was administered using ligajet intraligamentary jet injector (Micro Mega Company) containing Articaine hydrochloride 4% with adrenaline 1:200000 (ArtPharma Dent, inc, Egypt)
Faculty of Dentistry, Minia University
Minya, Egypt
Pain using visual analogue scale
visual analogue scale (VAS) was used in which a pain score was recorded for each patient just after local anesthetic adminstration. The VAS score ranges from 0 (no pain) to 10 (extreme unbearable pain)
Time frame: immediately after injection
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