بررسي تاثير نمك طعام )NACL( بر حذف موقت GAG REFLEX

The study of effection of salt (Nacl) on temporary elimination of gag reflex

Background: As gag reflex is considered as a complication during most of the dental procedures, developing new techniques have always been a task for clinicians to overcome the problem. Aim: The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of salt (Nacl) to temporarily eliminate the gag reflex during intraoral radiography. Material and Methods: A group of 256 patients (128 male, 128 female) were selected who had history of gag reflex from those reffered to Dental Radilogy Department a Kerman university. Patients were devided into two groups. During the course of this study of case who used salt, and control group who used starch (as Plasebo). Salt was poured on anterior 2/3 the of tonque, five seconds before taking the dental radiograph. The same proucedure was accomplished with starch for the second group. In case of an elemination of gag reflex after pouring salt or starch, the subject will be recorded as positive responder, other wise as negative. Results: Among 128 patients who were examined with salt,113 individuals showed a positive respond (88.3%). While, among 128 patients who were examined with starch only 3 individuals showed a positive respond (2.3% ). Conclisions: A possitive effct of NaCl could be councluded to relief the gag reflex based on the results of this study.