Effectiveness of acupuncture-induced anesthesia in controlling tooth hyperesthesia during tooth preparation.

Sharma, Snigdha; Dhanraj, M.; Jain, Ashish R.; Benita, P.

Dentine hypersensitivity is characterized by short, sharp pain arising from exposed dentin in response to stimuli. In this split-mouth randomized clinical study, we investigated acupuncture as an effective way of providing anesthesia to relieve dentinal hypersensitivity. A total of 15 patients, 20 bilateral maxillary and mandibular vital teeth (40 sites) indicated for tooth preparation, were selected for the study and randomly allocated to two groups, A and B. Patients in Group A underwent tooth preparation with acupuncture on the right side and with subperiosteal infiltration on the left side, while vice versa was followed for Group B. Following tooth preparation, patients interpreted their sensation during the procedure using the Heft-Parker VAS score. The result of the Mann-Whitney U-test showed that the two techniques had no statistical significant difference (P = 0.330, > 0.05). Hence, it was proved that both the techniques are equally effective in providing adequate anesthesia for tooth preparation.

ACUPUNCTURE; ANESTHETICS; PHARMACODYNAMICS; ALLERGIES; DENTIN; CLINICAL trials; PHYSIOLOGY

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