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Does Preoperative Dental Anxiety Play a Role in Postoperative Pain Perception After Third Molar Surgery?

BACKGROUND: Surgical removal of the impacted third molar is associated with inflammatory morbidities which include swelling, trismus, and pain. Pain is the most common postsurgical morbidity associated with third molar surgery. It remains an important factor in patients' perception of recovery...

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Autores principales: Onwuka, Chidozie Ifechi, Udeabor, Samuel Ebele, Al-Hunaif, Asma Mohammed, Al-Shehri, Waleed Ali Khalofah, Al-Sahman, Lujain Abdulrhman
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Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8015957/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33243951
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/aam.aam_68_19
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author Onwuka, Chidozie Ifechi
Udeabor, Samuel Ebele
Al-Hunaif, Asma Mohammed
Al-Shehri, Waleed Ali Khalofah
Al-Sahman, Lujain Abdulrhman
author_facet Onwuka, Chidozie Ifechi
Udeabor, Samuel Ebele
Al-Hunaif, Asma Mohammed
Al-Shehri, Waleed Ali Khalofah
Al-Sahman, Lujain Abdulrhman
author_sort Onwuka, Chidozie Ifechi
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description BACKGROUND: Surgical removal of the impacted third molar is associated with inflammatory morbidities which include swelling, trismus, and pain. Pain is the most common postsurgical morbidity associated with third molar surgery. It remains an important factor in patients' perception of recovery after third molar surgery with dental anxiety reported to exert influence on its threshold. OBJECTIVE: The aim of the study was to determine if preoperative dental anxiety has any significant role on postoperative pain perception after third molar surgery. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This was a cohort study involving sixty consecutive adult patients requiring extraction of impacted mandibular third molars under local anesthesia. Modified Dental Anxiety Scale Questionnaire was administered to each participant in the waiting area before the surgery. The visual analog scale was also given to each participant to be completed once daily at approximately the same time as the surgery time until day 7 after the surgery. Data collected were analyzed using SPSS version 23. RESULTS: Sixty participants who consented to third molar surgery took part in this study. Five participants were lost to follow-up. There were slightly more males (50.9%) than females (49.1%). Nineteen participants in this study had moderate dental anxiety (34.5%) and 6 participants (11%) had severe dental anxiety with more females having moderate-to-severe dental anxiety. The correlation between pain perception at different days and dental anxiety was not significant (P > 0.05). CONCLUSION: Preoperative dental anxiety may not significantly influence pain perception after third molar surgery.
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spelling pubmed-80159572021-04-05 Does Preoperative Dental Anxiety Play a Role in Postoperative Pain Perception After Third Molar Surgery? Onwuka, Chidozie Ifechi Udeabor, Samuel Ebele Al-Hunaif, Asma Mohammed Al-Shehri, Waleed Ali Khalofah Al-Sahman, Lujain Abdulrhman Ann Afr Med Original Article BACKGROUND: Surgical removal of the impacted third molar is associated with inflammatory morbidities which include swelling, trismus, and pain. Pain is the most common postsurgical morbidity associated with third molar surgery. It remains an important factor in patients' perception of recovery after third molar surgery with dental anxiety reported to exert influence on its threshold. OBJECTIVE: The aim of the study was to determine if preoperative dental anxiety has any significant role on postoperative pain perception after third molar surgery. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This was a cohort study involving sixty consecutive adult patients requiring extraction of impacted mandibular third molars under local anesthesia. Modified Dental Anxiety Scale Questionnaire was administered to each participant in the waiting area before the surgery. The visual analog scale was also given to each participant to be completed once daily at approximately the same time as the surgery time until day 7 after the surgery. Data collected were analyzed using SPSS version 23. RESULTS: Sixty participants who consented to third molar surgery took part in this study. Five participants were lost to follow-up. There were slightly more males (50.9%) than females (49.1%). Nineteen participants in this study had moderate dental anxiety (34.5%) and 6 participants (11%) had severe dental anxiety with more females having moderate-to-severe dental anxiety. The correlation between pain perception at different days and dental anxiety was not significant (P > 0.05). CONCLUSION: Preoperative dental anxiety may not significantly influence pain perception after third molar surgery. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020 2020-11-25 /pmc/articles/PMC8015957/ /pubmed/33243951 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/aam.aam_68_19 Text en Copyright: © 2020 Annals of African Medicine http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Onwuka, Chidozie Ifechi
Udeabor, Samuel Ebele
Al-Hunaif, Asma Mohammed
Al-Shehri, Waleed Ali Khalofah
Al-Sahman, Lujain Abdulrhman
Does Preoperative Dental Anxiety Play a Role in Postoperative Pain Perception After Third Molar Surgery?
title Does Preoperative Dental Anxiety Play a Role in Postoperative Pain Perception After Third Molar Surgery?
title_full Does Preoperative Dental Anxiety Play a Role in Postoperative Pain Perception After Third Molar Surgery?
title_fullStr Does Preoperative Dental Anxiety Play a Role in Postoperative Pain Perception After Third Molar Surgery?
title_full_unstemmed Does Preoperative Dental Anxiety Play a Role in Postoperative Pain Perception After Third Molar Surgery?
title_short Does Preoperative Dental Anxiety Play a Role in Postoperative Pain Perception After Third Molar Surgery?
title_sort does preoperative dental anxiety play a role in postoperative pain perception after third molar surgery?
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8015957/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33243951
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/aam.aam_68_19
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