Despite the advent of modern injection techniques, palatal injection continues to be a painful experience for children.
To compare the pain experienced during extraction of maxillary primary molars with conventional lignocaine anesthesia versus lignocaine and articaine buccal infiltration in children aged 6–14 years.
A prospective randomized triple blinded study was conducted with ninety children ( n = 90), randomly allocated to receive lignocaine conventional anesthesia (Group I [control group]), and buccal infiltration using articaine (Group II [articaine group]) or lignocaine (Group III [lignocaine group]). A composite score of self-report (faces pain scale-revised), behavioral measure (face legs activity cry consolability scale), and a physiological response (pulse rate) was measured following maxillary primary molar extraction.
To test the mean difference between two groups, Students’ t-test was used and among the three groups, one-way ANOVA with post hoc test was used.