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ArticleJournal of dental anesthesia and pain medicine2016

Comparative study of analgesia with bupivacaine 0.25% versus 0.5% for third molar removal under general anesthesia.

Parmanand Dhanrajani, Patrick Chung

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Article in Journal of dental anesthesia and pain medicine, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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4citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
0.3field-weighted citation impact, top 30% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. AnJournal of dental anesthesia and pain medicine · 2019
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  4. The Effect of Single-Dose Bupivacaine on Postoperative Iliac Crest Graft Donor Site Pain.Nigerian journal of surgery : official publication of the Nigerian Surgical Research Society
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Parmanand DhanrajaniOral Surgery, Hcf dental center, Sydney, Australia.
Patrick ChungVMO, Concord Repatriation General Hospital, Sydney, Australia.
Concord Repatriation General Hospital · AUSydney Dental Hospital · AU

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundThe aim of this study was to compare the effectiveness and duration of action of two concentrations of bupivacaine with adrenaline for postoperative pain in patients undergoing surgical removal of four third molars under general anesthesia.

methodsSixty patients undergoing surgical removal of four wisdom teeth received bupivacaine 0.5% (n = 30) or 0.25% (n = 30). The severity of pain in the immediate recovery period and at 2 and 24 h after surgery was recorded using the visual analogue scale. Differences were assessed by box and whisper plot and the Student's

resultsThe analgesic effects of the 0.25% and 0.5% doses were significantly different (P = 0.022) at 30 min after surgery but not after 2 and 24 h. The difference of mean of 0.25% and 0.5% was much higher after 0.5 h but less after 2 and 24 h.

conclusionsBupivacaine 0.5% was statistically better for pain control during the immediate postoperative period, but there was no significant difference in pain control between the two dose strengths at 2 and 24 h after surgery.

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BupivacaineExtractionLocal anesthesiaThird molars

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PMID28879304
PMCPMC5564080
OpenAlexW2463789226

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