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Alveolar Osteitis: Patients’ compliance to post-extraction instructions following extraction of molar teeth

BACKGROUND: To evaluate the effect of various combination of post-extraction regimen administered to patients who had intra-alveolar molar tooth extraction. PATIENTS AND METHODS: One year prospective study involving 76 consenting patients who came for 1-week post-extraction review. The patients were...

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Autores principales: Akpata, Osagie, Omoregie, Osawe Felix, Owotade, Foluso
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3883235/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24403713
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0300-1652.122360
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Omoregie, Osawe Felix
Owotade, Foluso
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description BACKGROUND: To evaluate the effect of various combination of post-extraction regimen administered to patients who had intra-alveolar molar tooth extraction. PATIENTS AND METHODS: One year prospective study involving 76 consenting patients who came for 1-week post-extraction review. The patients were placed on warm saline mouth rinse with (verbal instruction) or without antibiotic and or analgesic therapy (written prescription), after intra-alveolar molar tooth extraction. Information was obtained from the patients through questionnaire and clinical examination. RESULTS: The patients were placed on warm saline mouth rinse (n = 29, 38.2%) only, warm saline rinse, antibiotics (Amoxicillin and metronidazole) and Paracetamol (n = 31, 40.8%), Paracetamol and warm saline rinse (n = 12, 15.8%) and antibiotics (Amoxicillin and metronidazole) and Paracetamol (n = 4, 5.3%). A total of 63 (82.9%) patients complied with the post-extraction regimen, giving a significant high compliance to the post-extraction instructions (P = 0.001). There were 10 (13.2%) cases of post-extraction localised alveolar osteitis, with predilection for the lower molar teeth (n = 6, 7.9%) and a significant predilection for females (n = 8, 10.5%) [P = 0.005]. Overall, there were five (6.6%) cases each of localised alveolar osteitis in the compliant patients (n = 63, 82.9%) and non-compliant patients (n = 13, 17.1%), giving a ratio of 1:13 and 1:3, respectively. There was significant association of compliance with post-extraction instruction and the reduced incidence of localized alveolar osteitis (P = 0.015). CONCLUSION: This study showed a significant patients’ compliance with post-extraction warm saline rinse, prophylactic antibiotics and analgesic and a corresponding significant reduction in the incidence of localised alveolar osteitis following intra-alveolar molar tooth extraction. This study emphasises the need to properly educate patients on the effect of compliance to various combination of post-extraction regimen.
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spelling pubmed-38832352014-01-08 Alveolar Osteitis: Patients’ compliance to post-extraction instructions following extraction of molar teeth Akpata, Osagie Omoregie, Osawe Felix Owotade, Foluso Niger Med J Original Article BACKGROUND: To evaluate the effect of various combination of post-extraction regimen administered to patients who had intra-alveolar molar tooth extraction. PATIENTS AND METHODS: One year prospective study involving 76 consenting patients who came for 1-week post-extraction review. The patients were placed on warm saline mouth rinse with (verbal instruction) or without antibiotic and or analgesic therapy (written prescription), after intra-alveolar molar tooth extraction. Information was obtained from the patients through questionnaire and clinical examination. RESULTS: The patients were placed on warm saline mouth rinse (n = 29, 38.2%) only, warm saline rinse, antibiotics (Amoxicillin and metronidazole) and Paracetamol (n = 31, 40.8%), Paracetamol and warm saline rinse (n = 12, 15.8%) and antibiotics (Amoxicillin and metronidazole) and Paracetamol (n = 4, 5.3%). A total of 63 (82.9%) patients complied with the post-extraction regimen, giving a significant high compliance to the post-extraction instructions (P = 0.001). There were 10 (13.2%) cases of post-extraction localised alveolar osteitis, with predilection for the lower molar teeth (n = 6, 7.9%) and a significant predilection for females (n = 8, 10.5%) [P = 0.005]. Overall, there were five (6.6%) cases each of localised alveolar osteitis in the compliant patients (n = 63, 82.9%) and non-compliant patients (n = 13, 17.1%), giving a ratio of 1:13 and 1:3, respectively. There was significant association of compliance with post-extraction instruction and the reduced incidence of localized alveolar osteitis (P = 0.015). CONCLUSION: This study showed a significant patients’ compliance with post-extraction warm saline rinse, prophylactic antibiotics and analgesic and a corresponding significant reduction in the incidence of localised alveolar osteitis following intra-alveolar molar tooth extraction. This study emphasises the need to properly educate patients on the effect of compliance to various combination of post-extraction regimen. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013 /pmc/articles/PMC3883235/ /pubmed/24403713 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0300-1652.122360 Text en Copyright: © Nigerian Medical Journal http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Akpata, Osagie
Omoregie, Osawe Felix
Owotade, Foluso
Alveolar Osteitis: Patients’ compliance to post-extraction instructions following extraction of molar teeth
title Alveolar Osteitis: Patients’ compliance to post-extraction instructions following extraction of molar teeth
title_full Alveolar Osteitis: Patients’ compliance to post-extraction instructions following extraction of molar teeth
title_fullStr Alveolar Osteitis: Patients’ compliance to post-extraction instructions following extraction of molar teeth
title_full_unstemmed Alveolar Osteitis: Patients’ compliance to post-extraction instructions following extraction of molar teeth
title_short Alveolar Osteitis: Patients’ compliance to post-extraction instructions following extraction of molar teeth
title_sort alveolar osteitis: patients’ compliance to post-extraction instructions following extraction of molar teeth
topic Original Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3883235/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24403713
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0300-1652.122360
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