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Aromatherapy With Lavender Essential Oil as a Complementary Treatment for the Control of Dental Anxiety

Not Applicable
Conditions
Dental Anxiety
Interventions
Other: Sham aromatherapy
Other: Lavender aromatherapy
Registration Number
NCT04285385
Lead Sponsor
Universidad Autónoma Benito Juárez de Oaxaca
Brief Summary

Dental anxiety is a common problem in dental care, the aim of this protocol is to evaluate the effect of lavender for the control of anxiety during a surgical dental extraction.

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
UNKNOWN
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
50
Inclusion Criteria
  • Volunteer to take part in the study
  • Healthy patients
  • Patients signing the informed consent
  • Patients who need surgical removal of third molars
Exclusion Criteria
  • Hypertensive patients
  • Patients with nasal congestion problems
  • Patients allergic to lavender.
  • Patients under treatment with anti depressants

Study & Design

Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Study Design
PARALLEL
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
Sham AromatherapySham aromatherapy0.10 ml mineral oil 30 minutes prior surgery
AromatherapyLavender aromatherapy0.10 ml of lavender essential oil 30 minutes prior surgery
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Corah45 minutes before dental treatment

Corah's Dental Anxiety Scale (1-25). Non anxiety (0-8), moderate (9-12), high (13-14), severe (over 15)

Cortisol30 minutes after aromatherapy

Salivary Cortisol Testing (ng/mL)

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Heart rate30 minutes after aromatherapy

The speed of the heartbeat measured by the number of contractions of the heart per minute

Respiratory rate30 minutes after aromatherapy

The number of breaths per minute.

Arterial pressure30 minutes after aromatherapy

The pressure of circulating blood on the walls of blood vessels. (mm/Hg) sphingomanometer OMRON model HEM-7114

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