Effect Of Intracanal Analgesia To Control Interappointment Pain During Root Canal Treatment - A Literature Review

Endodontic treatment is often associated with pain in most of the patients and so pain management in endodontics has always been of concern to all the dentists. In anticipation of pain during root canal treatment, the patients' anxiety levels shoot up which makes the treatment procedure difficult, disrupts scheduling and creates discomfort to the dentists. Interappointment pain during root canal treatment has been believed to be caused by acute inflammation in the periapical area. Several agents have been used for the management of this pain and various routes of administration have been studied for the delivery of these agents to manage pain effectively. This review would discuss the pathophysiology of endodontic pain, the agents used and the routes of delivery of these agents for the management of interappointment pain during root canal treatment along with a novel technique of administering the drug locally at the site of action with minimum concentration for effective pain control.