Effect of Alcohol Consumption on the Success Rates

This prospective, randomized, double-blind clinical trial will be carried out Conservative Dentistry, Faculty of Dentistry, Jamia Millia Islamia. Seventy adult patients (35 alcoholic and 35 non-alcoholics) with symptomatic irreversible pulpits in a mandibular first or second molar will receive an IANB with 2% lidocaine. In case of pain during treatment, the procedure will be stopped, and the patients will be asked to rate the pain on the Heft-Parker scale. The injection shall be considered as successful if the patient reports pain scores less than 55 on the HP scale.