NCT03545022

Acupuncture on Anxiety and Inflammatory Events Following Surgery of Mandibular Third Molars

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 18 (actual)
• Sponsor: Federal University of the Valleys of Jequitinhonha and Mucuri · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 17 Years – 30 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The aim of this study was to compare the effect of acupuncture and placebo acupuncture for the control of pain, edema, and trismus following the extraction of third molars and control of preoperative anxiety. Patients who met the study criteria were randomized to the type of acupuncture (active acupuncture or placebo acupuncture) and to the side of the first surgery (right or left).

Detailed description

Studies using acupuncture have shown promising results in the control of pain, edema, trismus and anxiety control. The use of this technique is interesting considering the negative effects of excessive use of medicines and the side effects of medications which are the most common treatment used for the control of these complications. However, there are no reports in the literature that evaluated the effects of acupuncture on the control of these variables following mandibular third molar extraction, using the placebo-needle design and blinding the patients, operators, and evaluators. Therefore, the aim of this split-mouth randomized triple-blind clinical trial was to compare the efficacy of acupuncture and placebo acupuncture for the control of pain, edema, trismus and preoperative anxiety in the extraction of third molars.

Conditions

• Tooth Extraction
• Molar, Third
• Pain, Postoperative
• Trismus
• Edema
• Anxiety

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Acupuncture	The application of acupuncture was performed in four sessions, 30 minutes prior to surgery, 24, 48 and 72 hours following the surgery, before variables measurements. The points were manually stimulated and the needles were inserted up to 4mm. There were 11 points, applied bilaterally, two of them, point VG20 and Yintang, for anxiety control, only at the preoperative time and not bilateral. The points to reduce pain, edema, and trismus were IG4 (Hegu), F3 (Taichong) and E44 (Neiting), TA21 (Ermen), ID19 (Ting-Kong), E6 (Jiagle) and E7 (Towei) , point B60 (Kunlum) and VB34 (Yanglingquan). All patients received the same treatment in all sessions. After the needle devices were inserted, the needles were re-stimulated manually once after 10 minutes and removed after more 10 minutes.

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-08-01
• Primary completion: 2017-03-01
• Completion: 2017-03-01
• First posted: 2018-06-04
• Last updated: 2018-06-04