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Comparative Evaluation of Pain Perception With a Comfort-in Jet Injection and Convantional Dental Injection in Children: a Randomized, Split-mouth, Clinical Trial
In Brief
A clinical study evaluating Needle-free injection for Pain and 5 related conditions. Completed, enrolled 94 participants across 1 site.
Detailed Summary
The investigators aimed to compare the effectiveness of the Comfort-in system, which is a jet injection type, and infiltrative anesthesia with a traditional injector, and to measure the effect of children's anxiety on the severity of pain.
Study Details
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This study was performed among children aged 4-10 years who required dental treatment and were treated at the Department of Pedodontics, Faculty of Dentistry, Gaziosmanpasa University. A total of 120 patients were evaluated in accordance with the exclusion criteria and 94 children (39 girls and 55 boys) were included in this study. Children who needed dental treatment were randomly divided into two groups. All dental injections were administered by the same operator (MB), a pediatric dentist with two years of experience in using the Comfort-In system. In both groups, the children were asked to rate their pain intensity by choosing the closest statement on the colorful Wong-Baker Pain Scale at four time points: immediately after injection (Pain 1), during treatment (Pain 2), at the end of the treatment (Pain 3) and postoperative first day.Anxiety levels were recorded using the Modified Children's Dental Anxiety Scale face version