Comparison between Electronic Dental Anesthesia and conventional Iocal anesthesia and controlling pain during cavity preparation in children

Abstract

The present study was performed to evaluate the effectiveness of transcutaneous electronic nerve stimulation ( TENS ) in children during cldss I I cavity preparation in both primary and first permanent molars compared

with conventional local anesthesia .

Forty healthy and cooperative children were selected from the Pedia c I Dental Clinic, Faculty of Dentistry University of Alexandria, their ages

ranged from 6-8 years . The teeth were selected according to the follow g criteria: I

Two prunary second molars or first permanent antimere molars with I lesions of similar size that required class I cavity preparation . One of the I teeth was treated with local anesthesia and the antimere one treated with

electronic anesthesia.

The 80 teeth were divided into 2 main groups :

Group I : included 40 maxillary molars ( 20 primary molars and bo permanent molars), which were subdivided into 2 subgroups : I

Subgroup (A) : 20 teeth treated using electronic anesthesia

Subgroup (B) : 20 teeth treated using infiltration anesthesia