RESUMO
The fact that 91 percent of respondents to this survey said they could benefit from more emergency training indicates an awareness on the part of clinicians of the importance of emergency preparedness. The average number of hours of continuing education courses in emergency management over the last ten years of the responding dentists was less than six hours. This, coupled with the fact that one third of the responding dentists were not comfortable with their staff's emergency preparedness, should serve as a wake up call to all practicing pediatric dentists, to our institutions who train these dentists, and to the Associations who regulate and govern the practice of dentistry. More continuing education courses on this topic would be very timely and helpful to these respondents.
Assuntos
Educação Continuada em Odontologia , Medicina de Emergência/educação , Tratamento de Emergência , Educação Continuada em Odontologia/estatística & dados numéricos , Tratamento de Emergência/estatística & dados numéricos , Humanos , Preparações Farmacêuticas , Sudeste dos Estados Unidos , Inquéritos e QuestionáriosRESUMO
The goal of the research was to compare the effectiveness of vibration with that of a topical anesthetic in reducing the pain of local anesthetic injections. Injections were given adjacent to maxillary premolars in four locations in 61 patients. Before injection, sites received either placebo or topical anesthetic with or without vibration. Patients rated the injection pain on a five-point scale. The topical anesthetic caused a statistically significant decrease in pain values; however, the amount of decrease was of questionable clinical significance.
