Question · asked by 1 review
Pre-cooling of the injection site vs Conventional treatment: Intraoperative pain
- Population
- Children and adolescents having dental treatment under local anaesthetic without general anaesthesia
- Intervention
- Pre-cooling of the injection site
- Comparison
- Conventional treatment
- Outcome
- Intraoperative pain
What each review found
Include earlier review versions| Finding | Effect | Studies | GRADE certainty |
|---|---|---|---|
Pre-cooling of the injection site vs Conventional treatment Self- or observational assessment of intraoperative distress/pain/acceptance of treatment during provision of LA: pain (SEM scale - Sound, Eyes, and Motor scale) · Children and adolescents having dental treatment under local anaesthetic without general anaesthesia · Immediately before LA Interventions for increasing acceptance of local anaesthetic in children and adolescents having dental… (2020) · Cochrane All outcomes | pain (SEM scale); risk with conventional treatment -, risk with pre-cooling -; 160 (1 RCT); VERY LOW. Evidence is uncertain regarding the effect of pre-cooling of the injection site on pain (data presented in a form… | 1 study · 160 participants | Very low |
Findings are shown side by side, never pooled across reviews.
The reviews
| Review | Searched up to | Included studies | AMSTAR 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Interventions for increasing acceptance of local anaesthetic in children and adolescents having dental treatment 2020 · Cochrane All outcomes | 2019-05 | Not listed | Not assessed |
How reviews are matched to this question
Reviews word the same question differently. Four decision models (TypeSafe's Jev, Liquid AI's d1-ultra, SubQ Snap and Baseten's Elephant) judged each wording of the population, intervention, comparator and outcome against the others; two wordings count as the same when at least three of them agree and none clearly disagrees, and findings count as this question only when all four elements match. Timing, setting and subgroup never split a question: they are shown on each finding.