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Evaluation of the Effects of Pre-operative Deflazacort on Post-operative Pain, Edema and Trismus

Evaluation of the Effects of Pre-operative Deflazacort on Post-operative Pain, Edema and Trismus in Impacted Lower Third Molar Surgery

Status
UNKNOWN
Phases
Phase 4
Study type
Interventional
Source
ClinicalTrials.gov
Registry ID
NCT04365088
Enrollment
35
Registered
2020-04-28
Start date
2018-12-15
Completion date
2023-12-15
Last updated
2023-08-22

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Conditions

Impacted Third Molar Tooth

Keywords

deflazacort, pain, edema, trismus

Brief summary

Removal of impacted lower third molar teeth is one of the most common oral surgical procedures, and these operations often lead to various complications in patients. Antibiotics, analgesics and/or anti-inflammatory drugs are prescribed for the treatment of complications encountered. Anti-inflammatory is the property of a substance or treatment that reduces inflammation or swelling. Anti-inflammatory drugs make up about half of analgesics, remedying pain by reducing inflammation as opposed to opioids, which affect the central nervous system to block pain signaling to the brain. Based on this information, in this study, it is aimed to evaluate the effects of deflazacort preoperatively on the postoperative pain, swelling and trismus.

Interventions

DRUGDeflazacort 30 MG Oral Tablet

After the taken a deflazacort pill once preoperatively (one hour ago), local anesthesia was obtained using 2 ml articaine hydrochloride 40 mg/ml with epinephrine 0.01 mg/ml . The horizontal incision was made with no. 15 scalpel blade and a full thickness mucoperiosteal flap was raised. In all surgical procedures, bone removal and/or tooth sectioning were performed under sterile saline irrigation. Following the extraction, granulation tissues were removed, and bleeding was controlled. Finally, the mucoperiosteal flap was repositioned by 3.0 silk sutures.

DRUGSugar pill

Sugar pill

Sponsors

Yuzuncu Yil University
Lead SponsorOTHER

Study design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
FACTORIAL
Primary purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
QUADRUPLE (Subject, Caregiver, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to 40 Years
Healthy volunteers
No

Inclusion criteria

* absence of any systemic disease, * having bilateral impacted mandibular third molar teeth in a similar position * absence of allergy to any of the drugs used in the study, * absence of pregnancy/lactating state, * no history of any medication use during at least 2 week before the operation.

Exclusion criteria

* not regularly coming to the controls, * not using their medicines regularly, * using any additional medication that may affect the outcome of the study

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frameDescription
Postoperative PainPostoperative 1st dayPatients were requested to mark their pain intensity on a pain assessment form using a visual analoge scale (VAS) ranging between 0 (no pain) to 10 (most severe pain).
Postoperative EdemaPostoperative 2nd dayPostoperative edema was evaluated by the distance between predetermined facial anatomic landmarks (from the mandibular angle to lateral corner of the eye, base of the nose, labial commissura, and soft tissue pogonion) which was measured with using thread and millimeter ruler.
Postoperative TrismusPostoperative 2nd dayPostoperative trismus was evaluated by the maximum distance between the incisive borders of the upper and lower right incisive teeth which was measured with a caliper.

Countries

Turkey (Türkiye)

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026