Oral Health Surgery
Conditions
Interventions
Preemptive analgesic administration
Preemptive placebo administration
Preemptive analgesic adminstration
Sponsors
Babajide Onanuga
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: • Patients who were between 18 and 55 years of age that presented with an impacted mandibular third molar. • Patients who had signed the written informed consent form. • Patients who were literate and able to interpret their pain experience. • Impacted mandibular third molars with Pederson difficulty index less than or equal to a score 8 (moderate difficulty). • Patients with recurrent pericoronitis, unrestorable carious lesions, food packing, grossly fractured tooth, non-treatable pulpal pathology of an impacted mandibular third molar. • Patients classified as ASA I, using the American Society of Anaesthesiologists physical status classification (i.e. healthy individuals without systemic disease). • Patients who did not have active infection at the proposed surgical extraction site.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: • Patients with clinically documented allergies to the drugs to be used in the study. • Patients who had been taking opioid and non-opioid analgesics within 48 hours prior to their intended surgical extraction. • Patients with clinically documented immunocompromised diseases such as uncontrolled Diabetes mellitus, HIV/AIDS or bleeding disorders. • Pregnant and breastfeeding patients. • Patients with peptic ulcer disease. • Patients with endodontically or periodontally compromised ipsilateral second molar also requiring its extraction.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Pain experience | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Mouth opening;Facial swelling;Rescue analgesic ingestion | — |
Countries
Nigeria
Contacts
Public ContactBabajide Onanuga
Lead researcher
Outcome results
None listed