Recruiting

Dental Block

Sponsor:

UCLA

Code:

NCT05351099

Conditions

Dental Pain

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18+

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Study Details

Brief summary:

This will be a prospective, observational cohort study assessing immediate pain relief from dental block in ED patients presenting with dental pain. The study will be conducted in the Community Regional Medical Center ED. The aim of this study, then, is to prospectively determine if dental block provides minimal clinically important difference in pain relief to these patients.

Conditions

Dental Pain

Study ID

NCT05351099

Start date

Mar 11, 2022

Status verified date

Feb, 2025

Completion date

Mar 11, 2026

Anticipated

Primary completion date

Mar 11, 2026

Anticipated

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18+

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Adult patients (>= 18-years-old) presenting to Community Regional Medical Center emergency department with a complaint of dental pain in whom the ED practitioner plans to perform a dental nerve block

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Patient with previous dental block within 24 hours prior to arrival at the ED
  • Refusal of dental block
  • Patient in law enforcement custody
  • Patient unable to be properly informed of study purpose or able to complete pain VAS score due to physical/ mental condition (altered mental status, unstable psychiatric patient)
  • Patient unable to be properly informed of study purpose or able to complete pain VAS score due to language barrier (not English- or Spanish-speaking)
  • Patient with other acute non-dental painful condition making evaluation of dental pain severity vs non-dental pain severity not possible
  • Patient with pain in multiple areas of mouth needing dental block in > 1 anatomic area
  • Patient to have Dental / OMFS ED consult for procedure

Study Design

Enrollment

195 participants

Anticipated

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Primary outcome measure

  • Change in Pain Scores on the Visual Analog Scale (VAS) [ Time Frame: Baseline10 minutes ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Central contacts

Brian Chinnock, MD

559-499-6440brian.chinnock@ucsf.edu

Jannet Castaneda, BA

559-994-5893jannet.castanedasanchez@ucsf.edu

Locations

Community Regional Trauma and Burn Center

Recruiting

Fresno, California, United States, 93721

Contacts

Brian Chinnock, MD

559-499-6400brian.chinnock@ucsf.edu

Jannet Castaneda, BA

559-499-6435jannet.castanedasanchez@ucsf.edu

Principal Investigator:

Brian Chinnock, MD

More Information

Sponsor

University of California, San Francisco

Last update posted

Feb 28, 2025

Last verified

Feb, 2025

Keywords

  • Dental Block
  • Inferior alveolar nerve block
  • Posterior superior alveolar nerve block
  • supraperiosteal nerve block

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-09-10. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by University of California, San Francisco on 2025-02-28.