Commonly prescribed analgesics, post implant surgery - A retrospective study

Abstract

Postoperative pain management comes with any treatment done in dentistry. Pain is considered as a complex experience that's invoked by an external stimulus. Safe and reliable methods of managing acute dental pain can be done with the administration analgesics. Common analgesics include Diclofenac sodium, Ketrolac, Tramadol, Paracetamol, etc. Dental implants are biologically and restoratively driven. A retrospective study was done in an institutional setting. The data for the study were retrieved from the college's patient record management software. All patients who underwent implant surgery at a given time frame of June 2019- March 2020 were taken into consideration. The patients PID, Name, Age, Gender and Analgesic prescribed were retrieved and tabulated. The data was then analysed using software (SPSS). Results: A total of 592 patients were involved in this study, 351 being male patients and 241 female patients. Majority of the patients who participated in this study were between 39.9 ± 12.58 years of age. The commonly prescribed analgesics included: Aceclofenac Paracetamol + Serratiopeptidase (93.2%), Acetaminophen +Hydrocodone (5.2%) and Piroxicam (20mg) (1.5%). Piroxicam was prescribed the least in the age group of 17-30 years. Conclusion: The most prescribed analgesic for patients who had undergone implant surgery was a combination of Aceclofenac, Paracetamol and Serratiopeptidase.