Comparative Evaluation of Three Anxiety Control Protocols in Third Molar Extraction

Summary

The surgery for the extraction of the third molars is a procedure in Dentistry that generates a large picture of anxiety in the patient. One of the ways to try to soften this picture, are the professionals to use sedation. Thus, the objective of this study was to evaluate three sedation protocols, and to compare them with vital signs values, in order to obtain the sedation method with greater patients stability.

Timeline

Start

2015-12-23

Primary completion

2016-12-20

Completion

2017-05-04

Publications

• Results Joshi S, Ansari AS, Mazumdar S, Ansari S. A comparative study to assess the effect of oral alprazolam as premedication on vital parameters of patients during surgical removal of impacted mandibular third molars. Contemp Clin Dent. 2016 Oct-Dec;7(4):464-468. doi: 10.4103/0976-237X.194125.
• Results Corah NL, Gale EN, Illig SJ. Assessment of a dental anxiety scale. J Am Dent Assoc. 1978 Nov;97(5):816-9. doi: 10.14219/jada.archive.1978.0394.
• Results Khader R, Oreadi D, Finkelman M, Jarmoc M, Chaudhary S, Schumann R, Rosenberg M. A prospective randomized controlled trial of two different sedation sequences for third molar removal in adults. J Oral Maxillofac Surg. 2015 Feb;73(2):224-31. doi: 10.1016/j.joms.2014.08.033. Epub 2014 Sep 16.

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