Open AccessEffectiveness of Two Topical Anaesthetic Agents used along with Audio Visual Aids in Paediatric Dental Patients
Author(s) -
Nidhi Agarwal,
Jayata Dhawan,
Dipanshu Kumar,
Ashish Anand,
Karan Tangri
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
journal of clinical and diagnostic research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2249-782X
pISSN - 0973-709X
DOI - 10.7860/jcdr/2017/23180.9217
Subject(s) - medicine , benzocaine , distraction , visual analogue scale , dental procedure , anesthesia , local anaesthetic , anxiety , lidocaine , dentistry , dental care , psychology , neuroscience , psychiatry
Topical anaesthetic agents enable pain free intraoral procedures, symptomatic pain relief for toothache, superficial mucosal lesions and pain related to post extraction time. Most common anxiety provoking and fearful experience for children in dental operatory is administration of local anaesthesia because on seeing the needle, children usually become uncooperative. One of recent trend of behaviour management technique is using non-aversive techniques out of which audiovisual distraction has emerged as a very successful technique for managing children in dental settings. Audio visual distraction could decrease the procedure related anxiety of patients undergoing dental treatment and can be very relaxing for highly anxious patients.