Percepción del dolor y niveles de ansiedad durante la aplicación de anestesia local odontológica sin vasoconstrictor en pacientes adultos sanos

Introduction: There are situations in the dental consultation such as anxiety and pain being a problem to be treated, in this way the need to carry out the present study is born and to demonstrate that anxiety and pain can severely harm patients and the professional in The time of the consultation. Objective: To evaluate the perception of pain and anxiety levels during the application of local anesthetic without vasoconstrictor in healthy adult patients and the determination of the relationship between self-perception of pain according to sociodemographic variables such as age, sex and education level. To identify the perception of pain from the preoperative anxiety levels in relation to the self-perception of pain during the application of local anesthesia without vasoconstrictor. Record the pain caused by the injection of local anesthesia without vasoconstrictor. The present descriptive, observational, transversal and prospective study where individuals between 20 and 60 years of age attending the dental clinic of the University of the Americas were observed. Methods: Before the local anesthesia administration, the anxiety levels were evaluated using the MDAS modified dental anxiety scale, followed by the application of 2 percent Lidocaine without epinephrine. After the application using the VAS analogue visual scale, self-perception of pain at the puncture and administration will be determined, thus relating it to the preoperative anxiety experienced by the patient. Results: It was found that male patients were more sensitive to self-perception of pain at the time of puncture and at the time of local anesthetic administration. Patients with greater dental anxiety experience greater pain when applying a dental injection, than the level of anxiety found in younger patients was found to be higher than in the other age ranges, followed by adult patients between the ages of 51 and 60 Of age, it was also shown that there is a directly proportional relationship between the level of anxiety with the pain perception of the study individuals. Of the patients that participated in this research predominated in the level of moderate anxiety in the masculine gender and the elevated anxiety is represented in a greater percentage by the feminine gender.