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Trial reportIranian endodontic journal2021

The Effect of Adding Clonidine to Articaine and Epinephrine on Post-treatment Pain: A Randomized Clinical Trial Study.

Elham Shadmehr, Sara Hashemi, Seyed Saman Hashemi, Yoo Jung Chung, Arman Goudarzi, Abbasali Khademi

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Trial report in Iranian endodontic journal, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7citing papers in PubMed
1.5field-weighted citation impact, top 19% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Elham ShadmehrDepartment of Endodontics and Periodontics, Division of Endodontics, School of Dentistry, University of California, San Francisco, USA.
Sara HashemiDental Students' Research Committee, School of Dentistry, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran.
Seyed Saman HashemiDentists, Private Practice, Isfahan, Iran.
Yoo Jung ChungSchool of Dentistry, University of California, San Francisco, USA.
Arman GoudarziDentists, Private Practice, Isfahan, Iran.
Abbasali KhademiDental Research Center, Department of Endodontics, Dental School, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran.
Isfahan University of Medical Sciences · IRUniversity of California, San Francisco · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Introduction: Articaine is reported to have a fast onset and a short-acting pulpal anesthesia in inferior alveolar nerve blocks. Clonidine is an Materials and Methods: Our randomized clinical trial study enrolled one hundred patients with symptomatic irreversible pulpitis in mandibular molars. They were divided into two groups, each group received either 0.2 mL 150 µg/mL clonidine or distilled water added to 1.8 mL of 4% articaine with 1:100,000 epinephrine cartridge. The alveolar nerve block in the two groups was administered by the same clinician and the subject's pain scores were recorded at 6, 12, 24, 48 and 72 h post-operatively using a Heft-Parker visual analog scale. Data were analyzed using t, chi-square and repeated-measures ANOVA statistical tests. Results: The mean pain scores for clonidine group were significantly lower than control at all the time intervals after treatment ( Conclusion: Based on this randomized clinical trial study the addition of clonidine to the articaine/epinephrine solution using an inferior alveolar nerve block during root canal treatment in mandibular molars with irreversible pulpitis may be effective in reducing post-operative pain.

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ArticaineClonidineInferior Alveolar Nerve BlockPost-operative PainRoot Canal Therapy

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PMID36704779
PMCPMC9735314
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