The aim of this study is to compare piezosurgery and conventional surgery in impacted third molar surgery and to determine its effect on postoperative outcomes and quality of life.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
DOUBLE
Enrollment
20
Piezosurgery used as an osteotomy device
Conventional burs used as an osteotomy device
Marmara University School of Dentistry
Istanbul, Turkey (Türkiye)
Change in Oral Health-related Quality of Life
Evaluated by OHIP-14
Time frame: 14 days
Change in pain
Postoperative pain was assessed using a Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) ranging from the absence of pain (score 0) to the most severe pain imaginable
Time frame: 7 days
Change in Mouth opening
The distance between the mesio-incisal corners of the upper and lower central incisors was measured with the help of a ruler when the mouth opening was at its maximum.
Time frame: 7 days
Operation time
The total time from the first incision of the operation site to the last suture was measured with the help of a digital stopwatch as the operation time.
Time frame: Intraoperative
Change in facial swelling
With the technique described by Neupert ; * Angle of mandible-tragus * Angle of mandible-lateral canthus of eye * Mandible corner-nose wing * Angle of mandible oral-commissures * Measurements were made with a tape measure from 5 points, with the mandible corner-pogonion.
Time frame: 7 days
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