Pain Assessment and Need for Analgesics after Scaling and Root Planing in Patients with Stage II and Stage III Periodontitis

Background and Objectives: The most common treatment procedure for periodontitis gingivitis is scaling root planing, which perceived as a painful dental treatment. current study aimed to assess pain perception analgesics consumption after planing (SRP) in patients with stage II III periodontitis. Materials Methods: Before starting the SRP, all periodontal parameters, such probing depth (PD), bleeding on (BOP), clinical attachment level (CAL), were measured. anxiety of was also assessed using modified scale (MDAS) questionnaire. Pain recorded visual analog (VAS) performing SRP. Patients asked mark their VAS sheet two hours, four eight 24 h, 48 h following cut-off points used intensity VAS: 0 = no pain, 1–4 mild 4–6 moderate 7–10 severe pain. advised take if intolerable. Multivariate logistic regression performed conduct association dependent variables patients. A nonparametric Friedman test conducted at different times. Results: total 52 including 32 males 20 females participated study, mean age 43.10 ± 12.33 years. analyses showed that MDAS analgesic significantly associated perception. Other are not exhibited (p < 0.05) time. Conclusions: Analgesic SRP