Music for Pain Control Following Orthodontic Initial Archwire Placement

Abstract

Background: Pain control is very important aspect of orthodontic practice. Aim: To compare the efficacy of music therapy for pain control following initial archwire placement in orthodontics. Methods: This randomized control trial was conducted at orthodontics department. The study consisted of 50 orthodontic subjects from 1.1.2019 to 1.30.2020. Purposive sampling technique was used. 25 were in control group while other 25 were randomly allocated to music group. The pain was recorded using VAS scale at multiple points of time following archwire placement. T-test was used for the statistical analysis. Results: The study found that there was insignificant difference in mean pain scores between the two groups with less pain scores in music group. Conclusion: Music can play an effective role in pain control following orthodontic initial bonding. Keywords: Music; Orthodontics.

Music Intervention for Pain Control in the Pediatric Population: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

“…A total of 5601 participants in 38 articles, published between 2006 and 2022, were included (Table 1). Among all articles, eight articles were conducted in America [31][32][33][34][35][36][37], 14 in Europe [38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49][50][51], 13 in Asia [52][53][54][55][56][57][58][59][60][61][62][63][64][65], and three in Africa [11,66,67]. Most studies (n = 33) had a parallel randomized controlled design, and five studies [39,45,48,53,62] had a cross-over randomized controlled design.…”

“…The mean age of the participants ranged from a few days of birth to teenage years. To be specific, two articles included adolescents [43,52], 12 newborns [31,39,41,48,49,53,56,[60][61][62]64,65], and 24 infants and children [11,[32][33][34][35][36][37][38]42,[44][45][46][47]50,51,54,55,[57][58][59]63,66,67]. On the other hand, 29 studies were conducted in the hospital setting [11,[32][33][34]36,[38][39][40][41][44][45][46][47]…”

“…On the other hand, 29 studies were conducted in the hospital setting [11,[32][33][34]36,[38][39][40][41][44][45][46][47][48][49][50][51][53][54][55][56][58][59][60][61][62][64][65][66][67], and 9 in the clinic setting [31,35,37,42,43,51,52,57,63]. As for the type of pain, 18 articles examined participants with prick pain (heel lance, intravenous (IV) insertion, immunization, acupuncture, and lumbar puncture) [33,35,37,39,41,43,48,51,53,54,56,…”