Comparison of Conventional and Audiovisual Information on Anxiety and Postoperative Morbidity Following Third Molar Surgery: A Randomised Study.
- Conditions
- Oral Health
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Recruiting
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 90
1.Participants aged between 18 years and 35 years.
2.Participants who have never had a tooth extraction.
3.Participants with impacted mandibular third molar confirmed by periapical radiograph and indicated for surgical extraction.
4.Participants who can understand and comprehend both written and verbal information about third molar extraction procedure.
5.Participants with complete maxillary and mandibular incisors to enable measurement of maximal inter-incisal distance
6.Participants who give consent to take part in the study.
1.Participants with uncontrolled medical or systemic disease contraindicating surgical extraction under local anesthesia e.g. compromised cardiac function, hematological abnormalities, metabolic disorders, central nervous system disorder, impaired renal or hepatic function or depressed respiratory functions
2.Participants with chronic health conditions that affect blood pressure, pulse rate and heart rate such as sleep disorders.
3.Participants taking anxiolytic medications or receiving anxiety reduction therapy.
4.Participants with stress and anxiety disorders such as post-traumatic stress disorders assessed using trauma screening questionnaire.
5.Participants with peptic ulcer disease.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Pain<br>Swelling<br>Trismus<br><br><br>
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method STAI-S<br>MDAS<br>