Assessment of early wound healing, pain experience, life quality and related influenced factors during periodontal surgery: a cross-sectional study

Abstract

Background This cross-sectional study was to assess the early wound healing, pain experience, life quality, surgical satisfaction and the related factors during periodontal surgery. Methods 369 enrolled patients undergoing periodontal surgery completed the questionnaire before (baseline) and after operation immediately (phase I), on the day of suture removal (phase II) and one month later (phase III). The Early Wound Healing Score (EHS), short-form-McGill-Pain-Questionnaire (SF-MPQ) and tooth hypersensitivity visual analogue scales (VAS), oral-health-related-quality-of-life measure (OHQoL-UK) and surgical satisfaction VAS were detected and analysed. Results The EHS was 8.41 ± 2.74 and influenced by disease severity and surgical factors. SF-MPQ, pain intensity and OHQoL-UK were significantly increased in phase I and decreased later. The tooth sensitivity decreased significantly after periodontal surgery. Psychological factors positively related with these scores during periodontal surgery. Besides, disease severity and surgical factors were contributed in baseline or in phase I/II/III. Surgical acceptance and re-operation willing were continuously decreased after surgery and related to various and complicated factors. Conclusions EHS was good after periodontal surgery and related to disease severity and surgical factors. Pain experience and life quality were deteriorating in phase I but significantly improved later, which were influenced by disease severity, psychological and surgical factors. All these scores related to the surgical satisfaction. Trial registration: This cross-sectional study article reported the results without any intervention on human participants and all the experimental procedures involving human in this study were approved by the Ethics Committee of West China college of stomatology, Sichuan University (WCHSIRB-D-2020-284).