• Henk S Brand, Jacques A Baart, N Eline Maas, and Irmke Bachet.
• 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
• J Dent Educ. 2010 Aug 1; 74 (8): 876-9.

AbstractThe 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.

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