Diode Laser on the Reversal of Inferior Alveolar Nerve Block Anesthesia in Children

Launched by HAMS HAMED ABDELRAHMAN · Dec 11, 2022

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Eligibility criteria

• Inclusion Criteria:
• • Patients in need of operative dental procedures, requiring inferior alveolar nerve (IANB) anesthesia.
• • Healthy patients (physical status ASA I).
• • Definitely positive or positive patients on the Frankl behavior scale.
• • No reported allergies to LA, epinephrine or sulfites.
• • Normal lip sensation before administration of LA
• Exclusion Criteria:
• • Patients requiring surgical procedures (i.e. extractions).
• • Patients who will show excessive fear to the Transcutaneous Electric Nerve Stimulator (TENS) device and provide a false-positive response on inactivated electrode (absence of current) using the Venham scale.
• • Patients who will not be trainable in the standardized lip tapping procedure (could not learn to distinguish the anesthetized numb side from the non-anesthetized side).
• • Patients who will not achieve profound numbness after initial LA administration, requiring additional anesthesia using SEM scale.