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

Not Applicable

• Conditions: Dental Anxiety

• 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

Study Timeline

• Status Verified: 2020-02
• Study First Submitted: 2020-02-21
• Study First Submitted QC: 2020-02-24
• Last Update Submitted: 2020-02-24
• Study First Posted: 2020-02-26
• Last Update Posted: 2020-02-26
• Study Start: 2020-03
• Primary Completion: 2020-03
• Study Completion: 2020-05

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

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Corah	45 minutes before dental treatment	Corah's Dental Anxiety Scale (1-25). Non anxiety (0-8), moderate (9-12), high (13-14), severe (over 15)
Cortisol	30 minutes after aromatherapy	Salivary Cortisol Testing (ng/mL)

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Heart rate	30 minutes after aromatherapy	The speed of the heartbeat measured by the number of contractions of the heart per minute
Respiratory rate	30 minutes after aromatherapy	The number of breaths per minute.
Arterial pressure	30 minutes after aromatherapy	The pressure of circulating blood on the walls of blood vessels. (mm/Hg) sphingomanometer OMRON model HEM-7114