Evaluation of Using local anesthesia Procedures for Gingival Displacement Before Taking Impressions by Dentists in Damascus

Abstract

Background and Objectives: This study aimed to investigate the extent to which dental practitioners in Damascus city used local anesthesia or not, before performing gingival displacement by packing of the displacement cords to expose the prepared margins before taking the impression of the endodontically treated teeth in order to reduce the patient's discomfort from packing process of cords.

Materials and Methods:  The sample consisted of 240 dentists who practice in Damascus city, who participated in filling out an online questionnaire designed via a Google form consisting of seven closed-type questions as multiple choices. The questions dealt with the practitioner's opinion about the need to perform local anesthesia or not around the prepared endodontically treated teeth before applying gingival displacement cords. The results of the questionnaire were recorded electronically automatically via Google forms in the form of percentages and were entered into Excel and Power Point programs to make descriptive statistics of percentages in the form of graphs.

 Results: The results showed that 63% of those who participated in the questionnaire believe that local anesthesia procedure before gingival displacement is a necessary procedure, and about the technique of local anesthesia that they usually use, it was found that 74% of them follow the infiltration injection technique.

Conclusion: Within limits of this study, we can conclude that that most practitioners in Damascus city prefer to perform local anesthesia of the gingiva before packing of displacement cords around the prepared endodontically treated teeth. It was found that the local anesthesia technique most used by them in this context is the injection technique within the gingiva above the prepared tooth.