FACT – Nobody likes taking injections.
Everyone in their life must have experienced the “this may hurt a bit” moment from their doctor or nurse, whenever getting an injection in their arm, hands, back. In fact fear of injections is more severe in patients than that of fear of treatment.
- USE SMALL DIAMETER NEEDLES – needles with smallest diameter are always less painful compared to needles with large diameter.
- AVOID SENSITIVE AREAS – Use a site on your body that has a large, easily palpable muscle and has little fatty tissue covering it like your buttocks, thigh, hip or upper arm.
- APPLYING ICE – Application of ice for a period of around 5 seconds on the pre- injection site produces a stimulus that travels through the same nerve pathway as pain to block pain signals. This leads to suppression of pain.
- If ice is not there in the clinical setting , treating a cotton pellet with a volatile liquid, such as ethyl chloride, produces the ice ball
- NUMB THE AREA – Either ice or topical anesthetic agents can be used prior injecting.
- NEW ANESTHETIC AGENTS – anesthetic delivery devices which using pressure and vibration, eutectic mixtures of anesthetics, and supplemental anesthesia into the osseous tissue
- ANGULATION – the correct angulation for any cosmetic injection on the face is perpendicular, so that fewer nerve endings are affected.
- PSYCHOLOGICAL SATISFACTION – As patient is subjected to more fear, he/she will have a tendency of fear from injections too (doesn’t matter if you are gonna give him a painless injection) . What patient exactly needs is reassurance from the staff. So right from meeting at the reception, inside the clinic, the whole atmosphere given to the patient will have a huge impact on providing a painless injection.
- DEPOSITING THE SOLUTION SLOWLY – no quickly than 1 millimeter per 10 seconds, as it makes absorption of drug easier and minimizes pain.
For painless injections, contact Dr Rajat Sachdeva at Dr. Sachdeva’s Dental institute. The team at Dr Sachdeva’s Dental Institute offers a variety of anesthesia services for patients undergoing dental treatments. If you have additional questions you may contact ;
Dr Sachdeva’s Dental Institute
Clinic: 011-42464041
Phone: +91 9818894041
