Background: Dental anxiety and pain are common concerns in pediatric dentistry. These issues can lead to negative experiences for children and can make it difficult for them to cooperate during treatment. While medications can help manage these symptoms, it can also have side effects. This highlights the need for safe and effective complementary treatments. Aromatherapy, particularly with lavender and rosemary oils, has demonstrated anxiolytic and analgesic properties in different fields. However, their effect in helping children cope with dental anxiety and pain during procedures requiring local anesthesia has not yet been thoroughly studied.
Purpose: This study aims to investigate the efficacy of inhaled lavender oil, rosemary oil, and their combination in reducing dental anxiety and pain in children receiving local anesthesia for extraction of lower primary molar
Frankl behavioural rating score 2 or 3 during preoperative assessment.
Healthy children ASAI.
Children without a previous dental history.
Children presenting with at least one mandibular molar indicated for extraction. (43)
Children with colds, asthma, and any other respiratory diseases.
Children who took NSAIDs or analgesic drugs in the last 8 hours before treatment.
Parallel
Lavender group
Other interventionChildren in this group will be inhaled 0.5 ml of prepared mixture (of Lavandula Angustifolia+ Sweet Almond carrier oil ) on a cotton pad attached to the facial steamer .
Rosemary group
Other interventionChildren in this group will be inhaled 0.5 ml of prepared mixture (of Rosmarinus Officinalis + Sweet Almond carrier oil ) on a cotton pad attached to the facial steamer
Combination of both lavender and rosemary
Other interventionChildren in this group would be inhaled 0.5 ml of prepared mixture (of Lavandula Angustifolia and Rosmarinus Officinalis + Sweet Almond carrier oil) on a cotton pad attached to the facial steamer .
No essential oils
Other interventionChildren in this group will be inhaled 0.5 mL of the carrier oil (Sweet Almond ) on a cotton pad attached to the facial steamer .
Change in anxiety scores
Venham scale will be used. it ranges from 0 (relaxed) to 5 (Child out of contact with the relaity of threat)
Change in anxiety scores (by children)
Comprises a row of five faces ranging from very happy (score 1) to very unhappy (score 5)
Change in pain scores
FLACC scale. It is an objectively pain assessment Scale .The scale quantifies pain by observing five distinct behavioral categories: face, legs, activity, cry, and consolability. Each category is assigned a score from 0 to 2, which are then summed to yield a total pain score ranging from 0 to 10.
Change in heart rate
it will be used by pulse oximeter.
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