title: Effect of a training model in local anesthesia teaching.
abstract: The aim of this study was to evaluate the preclinical use of a training model in local anesthesia teaching on the subsequent clinical administration of a local anesthetic. Sixty-five dental students gave their first injection to a fellow dental student: twenty-two students after previous experience on a training model and forty-three without this training. After the injection, the opinions of both the student who performed the injection and the recipient were explored by questionnaires. Use of a training model did not affect the self-reported opinion of the students who performed the injection. However, the recipients of the injection considered students who exercised on the training model significantly more confident and calm, and reported a near-significant decrease in level of pain during insertion of the needle and feeling of a tingling lip. These results suggest that use of preclinical training models in local anesthesia teaching may have beneficial effects.
authors.affiliation: Departments of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and Periodontology and Oral Biochemistry, VU University Medical Centre and Academic Centre for Dentistry Amsterdam. hs.brand@vumc.nl
authors.forename: Henk S
authors.initials: HS
authors.lastname: Brand
authors.forename: Jacques A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Baart
authors.forename: N Eline
authors.initials: NE
authors.lastname: Maas
authors.forename: Irmke
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Bachet
mesh_terms: D000766:Anesthesia, Dental; D000772:Anesthesia, Local; D000776:Anesthesiology / Q000193:education*; D000779:Anesthetics, Local / Q000008:administration & dosage; D004497:Education, Dental / Q000379:methods*; D017148:Infusions, Intraosseous; D007267:Injections; D003765:Models, Dental; D017145:Models, Educational; D009407:Nerve Block; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
chemical_list: D000779:Anesthetics, Local