Evaluation of the effect of essential oil aromatherapy on anxiety and pain during administration of local anesthesia in children: a randomized clinical trial
Aarti Yadav, Sandeep A Bailwad, Akash Bhatnagar, Medha Roy · 2024
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Description
Aarti Yadav and co-authors test whether pleasant essential oil scents calm children during dental numbing injections. Their trial appeared in 2024. They enrolled 176 children aged six to nine and split them at random. One group breathed scented oil from a nebulizer for two minutes before the injection, with a ten-minute settling period. The other group was managed with standard behavior techniques alone.
Anxiety and pain were scored with faces scales, observer scales, and a child dental anxiety scale. The scent group showed clearly lower anxiety scores than the control group. The authors frame aromatherapy as a gentle, drug-free support that fits a non-aversive approach to children's dentistry. Calmer children, they note, make treatment safer and faster for everyone.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Aarti Yadav, Sandeep A Bailwad, Akash Bhatnagar, Medha Roy |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 33 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |