Comparison of Articaine and Prilocaine for Extraction of Maxillary Teeth

Launched by TAIBAH UNIVERSITY · Jan 21, 2020

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85 patients in this study had successful local anaesthetic followed by extraction within the study duration time (10 minutes). However, there were six patients with failure anaesthesia (5 in prilocaine group and 1 in articaine group). By application Person's Chi-square test (x2), there were no significant differences in the number of the episodes of the anaesthetic success between articaine and prilocaine groups at time intervals (P-value = 0.5). T- test showed there have been no important variations within the mean onset time of anaesthesia for articaine and prilocaine buccal infiltrations...

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Eligibility criteria

• Inclusion Criteria:
• • Patients have one or two upper teeth for extraction, subject tooth or its adjacent must be vital, healthy patient or patient with mild systemic diseases (class I or II according to American Society of Anesthesiology).
• Exclusion Criteria:
• • Patients excluded from this study if they have allergy to local anaesthetic agents or need surgical, or multiple teeth extraction.