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Associations Between Anesthesia Type and Anxiety Before Third Molars Extraction

Objectives: Third molars extraction causes the greatest levels of discomfort among all dental procedures. The aim of this study was to evaluate the association between anesthesia type and anxiety levels before third molars extraction.
Methods: Paper questionnaires were concluded. The demographic information of participants including their age, gender, education was requested to be filled at first. A 10-point Likert scales were used to measure respondents’ anxiety before the third molars removal procedure. 207 respondents were divided into two groups depending on the anesthesia type during extraction procedure: intravenous sedation group (n=95) and local anesthesia group (n=112). For the statistical analyses IBM SPSS Statistics 27 version and Microsoft Excel 2007 were used. Descriptive statistics, Mann-Whitney U test and linear regression were used to analyse the data. The significance threshold was set at p<0,05.
Results: Respondents from the local anesthesia group were mostly anxious of possible complications, pain and swelling after the third molars removal procedure (average point scores respectively 6,6; 6; 5,9). Respondents from the intravenous sedation anesthesia group were mostly anxious of possible complications after the procedure, bleeding and cracking sounds during the procedure (average point scores respectively 5,7; 5,7; 5,4). There was a statistically significant difference between the intravenous sedation and local anesthesia group respondent’s anxiety: participants from the local anesthesia group were more anxious about a needle stab before the procedure and possible limited mouth opening after a tooth extraction (p<0,05). Their general anxiety was significantly higher than respondents’ from the intravenous sedation anesthesia group (p<0,05). Respondents claimed that a leaflet with information about the extraction, sedatives and music could reduce their anxiety before the procedure.
Conclusions: Anxiety levels tend to rise in the presence of local anesthesia before the third molars extraction.

2021 Continental European and Scandinavian Divisions Meeting (Brussels, Belgium, Hybrid)
Brussels, Belgium, Hybrid
2021
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Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery Research
  • Jotautaite, Vakare  ( Faculty of Medicine, Vilnius University , Vilnius , Lithuania )
  • Pauliukaite, Austeja  ( Faculty of Medicine, Vilnius University , Vilnius , Lithuania )
  • Vitosyte, Milda  ( Faculty of Medicine, Vilnius University , Vilnius , Lithuania ;  Vilnius University Hospital Zalgiris Clinic , Vilnius , Lithuania )
  • Zaleckas, Linas  ( Faculty of Medicine, Vilnius University , Vilnius , Lithuania ;  Vilnius University Hospital Zalgiris Clinic , Vilnius , Lithuania )
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    Oral Session VIRTUAL
    Oral & maxillofacial surgery