Evaluation of the Effects of TENS Therapy and Acetaminophen on Pain Alleviation in Initial Orthodontic Treatment
Year: 2024
Type: article
Study designs: Randomized Controlled Trial, Clinical Trial
Abstract: To overcome the post-adjustment pain and discomfort associated with the initial alignment of archwires and separator placements, many authors have suggested various modalities.Chumbley and Tuncay 7 , in their study, used pharmacologic means of analgesia, such as indomethacin, a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug ABSTRACTObjective: This prospective study aimed to evaluate the analgesic effects of acetaminophen and Transcutaneous Electric Nerve Stimulation (TENS) therapy for pain control.Methods: Forty orthodontic patients who underwent fixed orthodontic treatment were randomly assigned to one of 3 groups: (1) acetaminophen, (2) TENS therapy, or (3) control.Pain was evaluated at 12, 24, 36, and 48 hours after the placement of both 0.014" NiTi and 0.016" NiTi archwires using a 10 cm visual analogue scale (VAS).Because the data were found to be non-normal, Kruskal-Wallis test was employed for both stage I and stage II intra-group comparisons.Results: For both stage I and stage II, evaluation of the VAS scores for all 3 groups at different time intervals showed that the difference between groups A and B was statistically insignificant (p>0.05).The scores of Group A compared to Group C were significant, and Group B compared to Group C showed significant values.Conclusion: Both TENS and acetaminophen reduced the pain experienced by patients compared with the placebo group.The acetaminophen group showed VAS results similar to those of the TENS group.
Source: Turkish Journal of Orthodontics
Language: English
Subfield: Orthodontics
Field: Dentistry
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4402995813