Abstract

*Prof. Dr. Baydaa Ali Othman, Marwa Zuhair Mahmood, Hajar Dawood Sultan, Rusul Sabah Badr and Saleel Emad Abduljabbar

ABSTRACT

The aims of this study are to determine the effectiveness and compare between block vs infiltration anesthesia for preventing pain feeling during different dental treatment in mandibular molar area of school age children. Fifty children of both genders were included in this study. All children were healthy without any systemic disease and they showed accepted degree of cooperation. The range of patient’s age was 6-12 years. Male / female no. was 23/27. All children were without any systemic diseases. Block anesthesia showed no pain feelings in all dental treatments. Infiltration anesthesia resulted in no pain in some dental treatment, meanwhile, result in some pain feeling in 2 cases pulpotomy/ pulpectomy and 6 cases teeth extraction. The differences between block and infiltration anesthesia in preventing pain feeling during different dental treatment for children was significant at p?0.05. Since block injection induces sustained anesthesia that is potentially traumatic to soft-tissues, it seems that infiltration anesthesia could be used as a suitable alternative technique for mandibular primary molar dental procedure as dental filling but not in pulp therapy and teeth extraction because infiltration technique is easier and induces moderate soft-tissue anesthesia.