Dental Students' Preference with Regard to Tactile or Visual Determination of Injection Site for an Inferior Alveolar Nerve Block in Children: A Crossover Randomized Clinical Trial.

Objectives: Instruction of local anesthesia injection in an important part of dental education curricula. This study was performed to compare dental students' preference with regard to tactile or visual determination of injection site for an inferior alveolar nerve block (IANB) in children.

Materials And Methods: This crossover randomized clinical trial was conducted on dental students of Zahedan Dental School who took the first practical course of pediatric dentistry in the first academic semester of 2013-14 (n=42).