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Study aim
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Aim of study was to evaluate effectiveness of use of single buccal infiltration and conventional two pricks of buccal and palatal injections in terms of providing equally effective analgesia for maxillary tooth extractions, at the same time causing less pain due to single injection rather than conventional two pricks method.
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Design
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Consecutive non random sampling with a parallel group design of 260 patients enrolled between 20th Feb 2021 to 20th Aug 2021 and followed for 6 months
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Settings and conduct
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Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, AFID Rawalpindi
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Participants/Inclusion and exclusion criteria
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Inclusion crieteria: age of 18-45 years,non-restorable tooth due to extensive caries or periodontal disease or for orthodontic extractions, physical status 1 according to ASA
Exclusion crieteria: Tooth associated with pathologies, non-odontogenic infections, patients on chemotherapy, radiotherapy and bisphosphonates
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Intervention groups
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Before administration of the local anaesthetic agent, each patient was instructed on the Visual Analog Scale (VAS) by a dental assistant.patients were receive infiltration of 2 mL (2% lidocaine HCl with 1:100,000 epinephrine) in the mucobuccal fold adjacent to tooth, at a slow rate of administration, over approximately 1 minute under aseptic technique.
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Main outcome variables
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The minimum VAS pain score in control group after LA Injection, was 18 and maximum VAS pain score was 34 with mean and standard deviation as 26.78 ± 4.993 and After tooth extraction, was 7 and maximum VAS pain score was 23 with mean and standard deviation as 14.18 ± 4.890. The minimum VAS pain score in intervention group after LA Injection, was 31 and maximum VAS pain score was 45 with mean and standard deviation as 38.14 ± 4.372, after tooth extraction, was 7 and maximum VAS pain score was 19 with mean and standard deviation as 13.33 ± 3.595