Is it possible to overcome your fear of needles? 

What if we told you that there are ways to experience less pain while achieving anesthesia...

Most of us have a fear for needles! Needles! Injections! They all are essential for us to provide a painless and a smooth dental treatment

 However these methods of providing a painless environment can itself cause distress to the patient.But what if , there are ways where by which, you  can counteract the fear of using  needles to provide a painless dental experience in a dental clinic.

 The fear of needles for most of us can cause anxiety making your dental experience unpleasant.

Here are a few ways in which a fear of needle use can be reduced or more precisely we can surpass Trypanophobia.

1.   Vibrotactile devices:

Using vibrotactile devices with high frequency vibrations to mask pain 

These devices make us of vibrations as a noxious stimuli so your perception of pain stimuli shifts towards your vibrations making your needle prick least of their concerns. These devices are battery operated attached to your standard syringe apparatus and they provide high frequency vibrations that will mask the pain that is causedby your needle prick due to the shift of your concise towards these vibrations.There are various types of vibrotactile devices available likeVIBRAJECT and DENTALVIBE. 

How does it work?

Gate control pathway

Pain is percieved in two ways

. Through fast A DELTA fibres

. Through Slow C fibres

While using these devices , the high frequency vibrations delivered get transmitted through the fast fibres whereas the pain through the needle prick is transmitted through the Slow fibres.

 The stimuli through the fast fibers mask the pain perceived by the individual making it less painful .

2.Microneedle patches:

These patches contain micron size of needles that are arranged in rows.They when placed on the mucosa will cause small micron sized pathways in forms of pores through the skin that allows diffusion of the hydrophilic local anesthetic molecules to enter inside causing an anesthetic effect.The pain perceived has been researched to be much much lesser than the pain caused by a prick using a 26 gauge needle .Psychologically applying a patch will improve the patient compliance.They are biodegradable in nature

Microneedle patches creating small micropores to allow for the local anesthesia to flow

Advantages:

. No scar formation

. No hematoma formation- localised accumulation of blood under skin

3.Jet injections:

These devices use pressure to force a small volume of the drug that is hydrophilic through a small orifice , creating a high speed spectrum of your desired drug that penetrates the skin to allow for anesthetic delivery 

Difference between a needle injection and a jet injection
Parts of a jet injection

Some examples of jet injections:

.MEDJET

.SYRIJET

With these methods both the patient satisfaction as well as the dentists satisfaction is improved.

Escape pain and improve treatment outcome.....