A Novel Approach in Reducing Dental Pain and Anxiety of Pediatric Patient During Local Anesthesia.
Anxiety, Pain
About this trial
This is an interventional treatment trial for Anxiety
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
- Patients, identified as positive or definitely positive through Frankl behavioral rating scale.
- Children, requiring local anesthesia infiltration for conservative treatment of two primary upper jaw molars bilaterally.
- Children without previous experience with local anesthesia for dental treatment.
- Obtained informed consent from parents or gave-givers to participate in the study.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Children who are considered medically compromised or medically complex patients. The absence of disease is confirmed by anamnestic interview with a parent or a care-giver of the child and excludes general acute or chronic disease, cognitive impairment, psychogenic non-epileptic events, sensitivity to flashing light or motion.
- Vision requiring correction with eyeglasses.
- Recent injury to the eyes or face that prevents comfortable use of VR hardware or software.
- Patients who are undergoing therapy with neurological, sedative, analgesic and/or anti-inflammatory drugs 7 days prior to treatment.
- Patients with allergy to local anesthetics, xylitol.
- Children, who are first time ever dental patients.
Sites / Locations
- AbdulRahman Alasmari
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Active Comparator
Active Comparator
sweet test group
Virtual reality group
Local anesthesia with conventional syringe Procedure: Local anesthesia with conventional syringe + xylitol sublingual tablet Buccal infiltration in posterior maxillary region with traditional technique. A 27 gauge short needle is inserted in the mucobuccal fold above the tooth to be anesthetized.
Local anesthesia with conventional syringe + VR device Device: Local anesthesia with conventional syringe + VR device Virtual reality device (Harga Miniso Vr Glass 3d terbaru) is placed on the face of the patient, playing a video of Tom and Jerry cartoon. Buccal infiltration in posterior maxillary region with traditional technique. A 27 gauge short needle is inserted in the mucobuccal fold above the tooth to be anesthetized.