Aromatherapy With Lavender Essential Oil as a Complementary Treatment for the Control of Dental Anxiety
Not Applicable
- Conditions
- Dental Anxiety
- Interventions
- Other: Sham aromatherapyOther: 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
Group Intervention Description Sham Aromatherapy Sham aromatherapy 0.10 ml mineral oil 30 minutes prior surgery Aromatherapy Lavender aromatherapy 0.10 ml of lavender essential oil 30 minutes prior surgery
- 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