Research Article

Is Preemptive Analgesia Effective on Postoperative Complications Occurring After Impacted Third Molar Surgery under General Anaesthesia?

Volume: 3 Number: 2 May 19, 2024
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Is Preemptive Analgesia Effective on Postoperative Complications Occurring After Impacted Third Molar Surgery under General Anaesthesia?

Abstract

Objective: In this study, it was aimed to retrospectively investigate the effects of preemptive analgesia on postoperative pain severity, pain onset time, analgesic need, edema and trismus caused by impacted third molar surgery. Material and Methods: ASA I-II group who underwent third molar surgery under general anesthesia was given intravenous 0.3 mg/kg tenoxicam 20 minutes before the surgery and 20 minutes after the end of the surgery were completed under general anesthesia 0.3 mg/kg under the same standard. Patients who were given tenoxicam before the surgery obtained were divided into preemptive group (Group 1) and patients who were applied postoperative tenoxicam were divided into postoperative group (Group 2). The data records of the patients who were applied tenoxicam were examined. Results: It was observed that the VAS values in the preemptive group were significantly lower than the values in the group 2 at the postoperative 1st, 3rd and 6th hours (p <0.05). It was found that 36 patients (76.6%) in the group 2 and 13 patients (31.0%) in the group 1 needed additional postoperative analgesia. Trismus was observed in 28 patients (59.6%) in the group 2 and 6 patients (14.2%) in the group 1. Analgesia time provided in the preemptive group was found to be significantly longer than the postoperative group (p <0.05). Conclusion: We believe that preoperative analgesic application as part of multimodal analgesia in patients undergoing impacted third molar surgery under general anesthesia offers successful and reliable results in postoperative pain management.

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Thanks

We would like to thanks to the staff and dental assistants, including our colleagues at the Adnan Menderes Unıversıty, Faculty of Dentistry, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery.

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Details

Primary Language

English

Subjects

Facial Plastic Surgery , Surgery (Other)

Journal Section

Research Article

Early Pub Date

May 15, 2024

Publication Date

May 19, 2024

Submission Date

October 31, 2023

Acceptance Date

December 28, 2023

Published in Issue

Year 2024 Volume: 3 Number: 2

Vancouver
1.Haşmet Türker, Hasan Onur Şimşek, Özlem Kocatürk. Is Preemptive Analgesia Effective on Postoperative Complications Occurring After Impacted Third Molar Surgery under General Anaesthesia? EJOMS [Internet]. 2024 May 1;3(2):58-66. Available from: https://izlik.org/JA55XE58WW

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