Evaluation of Preference of Infiltration Anesthesia or Nerve Block During Tooth Preparation-A Retrospective Study (original) (raw)

Local Anesthesia has the capability to block sensory stimuli.hypersensitivity is experienced during tooth preparation is referred to as Hyperesthesia and it can be managed by giving Infiltration or Nerve Block.A cross-sectional,descriptive study was conducted in a university, on randomly selected individuals.The study group consists of Adult patients who attended the outpatient Department of Prosthodontics from June 2019March 2020. 86,000 case sheets were reviewed and sampling was done using simple random sampling.A chi square test is done to evaluate the correlation between Sextant and Age with Type of Anesthesia given there is a correlation of Sextant and Anesthesia and there is no correlation of Age and Anesthesia.From the study we can say that most of the students preferred Infiltration Anesthesia over Nerve block Anesthesia during Tooth preparation so it is shown that Infiltration Anesthesia is chosen because it is easy and there is no any clinical complications