Buzzy Technique And Vibrajet In Pain Management For Local Anaesthesia – A Literature Review
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https://doi.org/10.56501/intjcraniomaxillofacsurgrehab.2022.640Keywords:
Buzzy technique, Vibrajet , Pain management, Local anesthesiaAbstract
Growing evidence supports skin vibration (Vibro analgesia) as a potential technique for pain alleviation. Vibration, pinching, and applying pressure to the skin have long been accepted as ways of relieving the pain of local anesthetic infiltration. Cooling the skin has also long been believed to have analgesic benefits and some procedures are even carried out entirely using this method in place of an anesthetic injection. Buzzy (MMJ Labs, Atlanta, GE, USA) is a bee-shaped apparatus consisting of two parts: the body of a bee and detachable ice wings. The Buzzy device is primarily based on Melzack and Wall's (1965) gate control theory of pain and the descending inhibitory mechanism. This article reviews this device and its technique.
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