Anestesia computadorizada em crianças: revisão de literatura

Abstract

In order to control the injection of the anesthetic solution and provide greater comfort for patients, in recent decades, computerized local anesthesia technique appeared, which has the same function as the conventional method, but with less discomfort. This local anesthesia technique, controlled by computer, allows you to set the amount of injected anesthetic, time and volume per minute, depending on the area to be anesthetized and can be adapted to different local anesthetic techniques. The objective of this review was to evaluate the advantages, disadvantages, and methods of computerized anesthesia in children. The keywords used in the research were "Pediatric Dentistry", "anesthesia, local", "Dental Anxiety" and "pain" in primary databases (SciELO, PubMed and Google Scholar). According to the selected articles, computerized anesthesia is a new technology in dentistry that deserves attention and more studies. Since the control of speed and volume of the anesthetic injection allows the reduction of pain and discomfort of patients, increasing the acceptance of the child patient at dentist 's office and to the realization of procedure that require the use of local anesthesia. This new technology aims to improve the care of child patient, but also improve care professional, improving the doctor-patient relationship.