THE EFFECT OF 2 DIFFERENT LOCAL-ANESTHETIC SOLUTIONS ON PAIN EXPERIENCE FOLLOWING APICECTOMY

Post-operative pain experience following apicectomy of a single maxill ary anterior tooth was compared in two groups of patients having this treatment under local anaesthesia. Twenty patients received 3.6 ml of 2% lignocaine with 1:80 000 adrenaline and 23 patients the same volume of 1.5% etidocaine with 1:200 000 adrenaline, as the local anaestheti c agent. Although soft tissue anaesthesia lasted significantly longer when etidocaine with adrenaline was used, pain experience and analgesi c intake did not differ between regimens. Lignocaine with adrenaline p roduced better operating conditions as haemorrhage control was more ef fective and the quality of operative anaesthesia was more satisfactory than with etidocaine and adrenaline. The use of etidocaine with adren aline offered no advantages over lignocaine with adrenaline when admin istered as infiltration anaesthesia for apical surgery.