Can music at a frequency of 432 Hz reduce dental anxiety in patients undergoing tooth extraction?
- Conditions
- Dental anxietyMental and Behavioural DisordersSpecific (isolated) phobias
- Registration Number
- ISRCTN28195632
- Lead Sponsor
- niversidad Austral de Chile
- Brief Summary
2020 Results article in https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7213780/ (added 10/09/2021)
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 42
1. A Modified Dental Anxiety Scale in Spanish (MDAS) score greater > 9 points
2. 15 to 30 years of age
3. ASA I
4. Requiring simple tooth extraction.
1. Suffering from systemic diseases
1.1. Diabetes
1.2. Immunosuppression
1.3. Hypertension
1.4. Thyroid pathology
1.5. Heart disease
1.6. Alcoholism
1.7. Pheochromocytoma
1.8. Cushing's syndrome
2. Heavy smokers (consumption of > 10 cigarettes a day)
3. Receiving permanent pharmacological treatment
3.1. Tricyclic antidepressants,
3.2. Anticholinergics
3.3. Benzodiazepines
3.4. Antihypertensives
3.5. Diuretics
3.6. Phenothiazines
3.7. Narcotics
3.8. Synthetic glucocorticoids (prednisone and prednisolone)
3.9. Phenytoin
4. Pregnant women
5. Pericoronitis or infection at the time of surgery or 10 days before surgery.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method <br> 1. Dental anxiety will be measured using the CORAH- MDAS questionnaire before and after music stimulation.<br> 2. Salivary Cortisol will be measured using 3 ml of unstimulated saliva before and after music stimulation.<br> 2.1. Saliva samples will be transported under refrigeration conditions and then frozen at -20 ºC until laboratory analysis.<br> 2.2. For statistical analysis, the amount of saliva secreted will be expressed in mL / min and cortisol expressed in ug / dl.<br>
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method