Aromatherapy With Lavender Essential Oil as a Complementary Treatment for the Control of Dental Anxiety

Dental Anxiety Clinical Trial

Official title:

Aromatherapy With Lavender Essential Oil as a Complementary Treatment for the Control of Dental Anxiety in Patients Requiring Third Molar Surgery of the "University Autonomus Benito Juarez of Oaxaca" UABJO School of Dentistry

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Not yet recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT04285385
• Other study ID #: 19PEC001FO
• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: March 2020
• Est. completion date: May 2020

Study information

• Verified date: February 2020
• Source: Universidad Autónoma Benito Juárez de Oaxaca
• Contact: Rafael Torres, MD PhD
• Phone: (52) (951) 1448276
• Email: rtorres.cat[@]uabjo.mx
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Dental anxiety is a common problem in dental care, the aim of this protocol is to evaluate the effect of lavender for the control of anxiety during a surgical dental extraction.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Enrollment: 50
• Est. completion date: May 2020
• Est. primary completion date: March 2020
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years to 40 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Volunteer to take part in the study

• Healthy patients

• Patients signing the informed consent

• Patients who need surgical removal of third molars

Exclusion Criteria:

• Hypertensive patients

• Patients with nasal congestion problems

• Patients allergic to lavender.

• Patients under treatment with anti depressants

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Anxiety Disorders
• Dental Anxiety

Intervention

Other:
• Lavender aromatherapy
0.10 ml of lavender essential oil
• Sham aromatherapy
0.10 ml of mineral oil

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
n/a

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Universidad Autónoma Benito Juárez de Oaxaca

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Corah	Corah's Dental Anxiety Scale (1-25). Non anxiety (0-8), moderate (9-12), high (13-14), severe (over 15)	45 minutes before dental treatment
Primary	Cortisol	Salivary Cortisol Testing (ng/mL)	5 minutes Before aromatherapy
Primary	Cortisol	Salivary Cortisol Testing (ng/mL)	30 minutes after aromatherapy
Secondary	Heart rate	The speed of the heartbeat measured by the number of contractions of the heart per minute	5 minutes Before aromatherapy
Secondary	Heart rate	The speed of the heartbeat measured by the number of contractions of the heart per minute	30 minutes after aromatherapy
Secondary	Respiratory rate	The number of breaths per minute.	5 minutes Before aromatherapy
Secondary	Respiratory rate	The number of breaths per minute.	30 minutes after aromatherapy
Secondary	Arterial pressure	The pressure of circulating blood on the walls of blood vessels. (mm/Hg) sphingomanometer OMRON model HEM-7114	5 minutes Before aromatherapy
Secondary	Arterial pressure	The pressure of circulating blood on the walls of blood vessels. (mm/Hg) sphingomanometer OMRON model HEM-7114	30 minutes after aromatherapy