The study will investigate the impact of an additional injection of long-acting anesthetic on pain level, quality of life, and use of pain medication after a nonsurgical endodontic treatment. The long-acting anesthetic will be compared to a mock injection group and a group with no additional anesthetic to determine any differences in effects.
The study will investigate the impact of postoperative supplemental long-acting bupivacaine on patient's pain, quality of life, and analgesic use following treatment for symptomatic irreversible pulpitis on patients with pre-operative pain levels of 5 or above (on a 0-10 analog scale). Bupivacaine will be compared to a placebo/mock injection and no injection to determine the difference in effect.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
SINGLE
Enrollment
150
This is the intervention of interest. A supplemental injection of bupivacaine will be given postoperatively to patients who are assigned this intervention.
This intervention will appear to give patients an additional injection, but no additional drug will be given.
New York University College of Dentistry
New York, New York, United States
RECRUITINGQuality of life (scored based on the OHIP-14 questionnaire)
Quality of life will be measured with a modified version of the OHIP-14 questionnaire. For each question, the answers correspond with a scale that runs from 0-4. A higher score corresponds with a lower quality of life, with 0 being great quality of life and 4 being very poor quality of life.
Time frame: Day of operation and daily for four days immediately following endodontic treatment
Postoperative pain level
Pain level as measured by the visual-analog scale (VAS) will be collected for four days following endodontic treatment. The scale is from 0-10, with 0 being no pain and 10 being the worst pain possible.
Time frame: Day of operation and daily for four days immediately following endodontic treatment
Analgesic use
Use of self-administered analgesics including opioids will be measured postoperatively. The measure is binary- either usage of self-administered analgesics or no usage of self-administered analgesics.
Time frame: Day of operation and daily for four days immediately following endodontic treatment
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