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Importance of the Type of Communication Used During Paraapical Anesthesia in Dentistry

RecruitingNAAges 18 Years - anyAllUniversity Hospital, Clermont-Ferrand
NCT06892184 on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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What the trial is, and whether it could suit you

Can we improve our communication to provide better care for our patients? In the healthcare field, the patient's experience is closely linked to pain management. The dental profession often requires simple but invasive procedures, such as local anaesthetics for example, which are providers of discomfort and anxietý that cannot be ignored. Fear of the dentist or dental care is a widespread phenomenon in the general population, since dental anxiety is estimated to affect 36% of the population, and 12% are thought to suffer from extreme fear. Clinicians traditionally warn patients of pain before para-apical anesthesia. This is not surprising, since even today, during initial training for practitioners, patients are taught to be informed, or even warned, of the pain to come, for ethical reasons (i.e., not to lie to the patient) and "so that he/she can prepare for it" (what we will refer to

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📋 Eligibility rules (as published)
Inclusion Criteria: * Male or female patient over 18 years of age requiring para-apical anesthesia for dental care. * Patient informed of the constraints of the study and having given written consent. * Patient covered by social security. * Patient with a good command of French. Exclusion Criteria: * Pregnant or breastfeeding women, or women who may become pregnant. * Patients under 18 years of age. * Patients presenting to the department in an emergency situation (which may increase stress). * Any medical condition deemed by the investigator to be incompatible with the study. * Known hypersensitivity to amide-bonded local anesthetics or to any of the excipients. * Anticoagulant treatment or known blood crase disorders. * Porphyrias. * Atrioventricular conduction disorders requiring permanent electrosystolic training not yet performed. * Epilepsy not controlled by treatment. * Patient uncooperative, unable to speak or read French fluently, unable to understand the principle of a pain scale, unable to understand the study or unable to sign informed consent. * Patients under guardianship, curatorship or deprived of liberty. * Patients premedicated with anxiolytics * Care requiring anesthesia other than para-apical anesthesia * Patient highly anxious about dental treatment (Score ≥15 on Corah scale)
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What it tests

  • hypnotic communication
  • conventional communication
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Where

1 site
CHU de Clermont-Ferrand
Clermont-Ferrand, France
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