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Addition of 2 mg dexamethasone to improve the anesthetic efficacy of 2% lidocaine with 1:80,000 epinephrine administered for inferior alveolar nerve block to patients with symptomatic irreversible pulpitis in the mandibular molars: a randomized double-blind clinical trial.

Vivek AggarwalTanveer AhmadMamta SinglaAlpa GuptaMasoud SaatchiMukesh HasijaBabita MeenaUmesh Kumar
Published in: Journal of dental anesthesia and pain medicine (2022)
The addition of dexamethasone to 2% lidocaine with epinephrine, administered as an IANB, can improve the anesthetic success rates during the endodontic management of symptomatic mandibular molars with irreversible pulpitis.
Keyphrases
  • clinical trial
  • double blind
  • high dose
  • low dose
  • phase ii
  • placebo controlled
  • cone beam computed tomography
  • phase iii
  • study protocol
  • open label