NCT06723158

Oral Surgery Virtual Reality Glasses Study

Investigating the Impact of Virtual Reality Glasses on Sedation Requirement and Patient Experience in Patients Undergoing Oral Surgery

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 80 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Boston University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 16 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The goal of this randomized trial is to investigate if using virtual reality (VR) glasses for patients who require non-emergent oral surgery procedures under intravenous (IV) sedation improves their overall experience compared to using standard of care safety glasses. This study has two primary objectives. 1. To evaluate if VR glasses can improve patient tolerance during IV access, sedation induction, and the surgical procedure. 2. To investigate whether the use of VR glasses reduces the amount of sedation required for induction and throughout the oral surgery procedure. 80 subjects will be randomly assigned 1:1 to either wear VR glasses playing a relaxing video and audio or VR glasses that will only serve as eye protection (control group).

Conditions

• Procedural Anxiety
• Procedural Pain

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Virtual reality (VR) glasses with relaxation module	The relaxation module will include immersive video and audio components as a distraction from the medical procedures.

Timeline

• Start date: 2025-11-18
• Primary completion: 2026-07-01
• Completion: 2026-07-01
• First posted: 2024-12-09
• Last updated: 2026-04-07

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States