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Nishith M Shah1, Ruchi Gulati2, Tejaswi Rasalkar3
1Consultant Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon, Dr Mukesh Shah Surgical Hospital, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India.
Aim:
Examining how pre-cooling affects children's experience of pain during local anesthetic administration is the primary goal of this study.
Material And Methods:
This study was conducted in vivo and involved 60 child patients who required local anesthetic in order to undergo dental procedures. Patients were divided into two groups based on a random chance: Group I was the control group, which did not receive any pre-cooling. Group II was the pre-cooling group, which allowed the injection site to be chilled with an ice pack for one minute prior to the administration of anesthesia. The Wong-Baker FACES Pain Rating Scale was used to evaluate the participants' level of pain perception immediately following the administration of the anesthetic injection.
Results:
The group that received pre-cooling showed a reduction in pain levels that was statistically significant when compared to the group that received control (P < 0.05).
Conclusion:
Pediatric dental patients may decrease local anesthesia pain by pre-cooling the injection site. This technique can be simply used in dental practices to improve patient experience, especially for children with dental anxiety or needle phobia.
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