Trial reportMedicina oral, patologia oral y cirugia bucal2018
Is telephone follow-up really effective in early diagnosis of inflammatory complications after tooth extraction?
Trial report in Medicina oral, patologia oral y cirugia bucal, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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12 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 16 citations in OpenAlex.
- How to Manage Impacted Third Molars: Germectomy or Delayed Removal? A Systematic Literature Review.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2019Pooled it
- Text Messaging, Telephone, or In-Person Outpatient Visit to the Surgical Clinic: A Randomized Trial.The Journal of surgical research · 2022Trial
- Can Teledentistry Replace Conventional Clinical Follow-Up Care for Minor Dental Surgery? A Prospective Randomized Clinical Trial.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Trial
- Follow-up by telephone questionnaire in outpatient oral and maxillofacial surgery.Oral and maxillofacial surgery · 2024Article
- Close follow-up instead of antibiotic therapy after mandibular third molar surgery: A clinical trial.The Saudi dental journal · 2024Article
- Prevalence and Factors Influencing Post-Operative Complications following Tooth Extraction: A Narrative Review.International journal of dentistry · 2024Review
- Is telephone follow-up useful in preventing post-extraction bleeding in patients on antithrombotic treatment?Journal of clinical and experimental dentistry · 2021Article
- Bucco alveolar bone thickness of mandibular impacted third molars with different inclinations: a CBCT study.Surgical and radiologic anatomy : SRA · 2020Article
- A Literature Review of Metagenomics and Culturomics of the Peri-implant Microbiome: Current Evidence and Future Perspectives.Materials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2019Review
- Antibiotic Prophylaxis on Third Molar Extraction: Systematic Review of Recent Data.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2019Review
- The influence of text messages and anxiety on pain perception and its impact on orthodontic patients routine.Dental press journal of orthodonticsArticle
- A Three-year Audit of Dental Services at Primary Health Care Facilities in Gauteng, South Africa: 2017 to 2019.Journal of International Society of Preventive & Community DentistryArticle
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Abstract
backgroundTo establish whether telephone follow-up is really able to intercept post-extraction complications and to evaluate the degree of patient satisfaction with this kind of post-surgical monitoring. MATERIAL AND
methodssix hundred and thirty-eight patients were enrolled and randomly assigned to a test or control group. Test group patients were monitored by telephone follow-up 24 and 72 hours after surgery to investigate the presence of local symptoms that are frequently associated with surgical wound infection and inflammation. Both test and control group patients were examined 7 days at suture removal. Patients with systemic diseases, those in which intra-operative accidents occurred during surgery and those for whom extraction suture was not required, were excluded.
resultsAt least one complication among alveolar osteitis, alveolar inflammation, alveolar infection and dehiscence involved 15.70% of the patients in the test group and 30.70% of the patients in the control group and telephone follow-up proved to be useful in early identification of anomalies in the post-extraction wound healing process. Comparable results were recorded in all extraction subgroups divided according to the type (surgical and non-surgical) and the number (single and multiple) of extractions performed in the same session. Telephone follow-up showed an 8.60 ± 1.17 (0 to 10 score scale) average acceptance. All cases of alveolar osteitis and infection occurred in patients who underwent antibiotic prophylaxis.
conclusionsTelephone follow-up seems to allow early detection of any possible wound healing complications, it is widely accepted by patients and it could therefore be considered a valid method for wound healing monitoring after tooth extractions, due to its effectiveness, feasibility and low costs.
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