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Can music at a frequency of 432 Hz reduce dental anxiety in patients undergoing tooth extraction?

Not Applicable
Completed
Conditions
Dental anxiety
Mental and Behavioural Disorders
Specific (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
Inclusion Criteria

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.

Exclusion Criteria

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
NameTimeMethod
<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
NameTimeMethod
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