Postoperative Pain and Recovery Time After Pulpotomy

Aydin Adnan Menderes University

Status

Completed

Conditions

Postoperative Pain

Treatments

Procedure: pulpotomy

Procedure: tooth filling

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT03142672

2016/764

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this retrospective study was to compare immediate postoperative pain scores and the need for rescue analgesia in children who underwent pulpotomies and general restorative treatment and those who underwent general restorative treatment only, all under general anaesthesia.

Full description

Ninety patients aged between 3 and 7 years who underwent full mouth dental rehabilitation under general anaesthesia were enrolled in the study and reviewed. The experimental group included patients who were treated with at least one pulpotomy, and the control group was treated with dental fillings only. The Wong-Baker FACES scale was used to evaluate self-reported pain and the need for rescue analgesia. The data were analysed using the Kruskal-Wallis test, two sample t- tests, chi-square tests and Pearson's correlation analysis.

Enrollment

90 patients

Sex

All

Ages

3 to 7 years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Patients who underwent full mouth dental rehabilitation under GA because of their lack of chairside cooperation
Patients with at least 1 pulpotomy were included in the experimental group (n=45), and patients treated with dental fillings only were included in the control group (n=45); a total of 90 patients were eligible for the study.

Exclusion criteria

Children with special needs and those with any systematic problem (cardiac disease, diabetes, or intellectual disability) were excluded from the study.