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 stim-ulus. 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 biologi-cally and restoratively driven. A retrospective study was done in an institu-tional 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 consider-ation. 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%). Piroxi-cam 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.