INTRODUCTION Patients without a dentist or access to care may present to emergency rooms with pain. They are often prescribed medications until they can be treated. There are no studies to show if emergency endodontic debridement is better than giving medications during this symptomatic period. The purpose of this prospective, randomized study was to compare debridement versus no debridement on...

AIM To compare ibuprofen, to an ibuprofen/acetaminophen combination in managing postoperative pain following root canal treatment. It is hypothesized that the drug combination will provide more postoperative pain relief than the placebo or ibuprofen alone. METHODOLOGY Patients presenting at the Texas A&M Baylor College of Dentistry's graduate endodontic clinic, experiencing moderate to severe...

OBJECTIVE We sought to evaluate the possible relationship between oral surgery and endodontic procedures and the subsequent appearance of cluster headache (CH) in 54 patients. STUDY DESIGN This study included 54 patients diagnosed and treated for episodic CH. The characteristics of pain, the extractions, and the endodontic procedures performed in the same or a contralateral quadrant were reco...

After root canal obturation of sound posterior teeth, dentists are always in hurry of giving full crown. They are not serious in giving proper post endodontic restoration which results in fracture of tooth or restoration, if patient delays the full crown treatment. The inherent causes of failures are rarely evaluated. Thus, it was the purpose of this study to analyze the opinion of practicing d...

BACKGROUND Little is known about the differences of rotary multiple file endodontic therapy and single-file reciprocating endodontic treatment under routine care conditions in dental practice. This multicenter study was performed to compare the outcome of multiple-file (MF) and single-file (SF) systems for primary root canal treatment under conditions of general dental practice regarding reduct...

INTRODUCTION This study aimed to evaluate patents as well as high level researches including systematic reviews/meta-analyses and randomized controlled clinical trials (RCT) published in scientific journals by Iranians endodontic. MATERIALS AND METHODS The study started with targeted searches of PubMed as well as World Intellectual Property Organization and United State Patent and Trademark O...

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background: despite the development of pediatric post-operative pain management and use of analgesic/narcotic drugs, post-operative pain remains as a common problem. some studies suggested, the most effective approach to controlling immediate post-operative pain may include a combination of drug agents and non-drug methods. the aim of this study was to investigate the effect of music therapy on...

post-operative pain and its management remains one of the most important issues in the field of surgery and health care system. on the other hand, opioid drug abuse has a large prevalence in iran. formalin test has been used as a method for assessing pain and analgesia in rats. in the present study, the post-operative pain in morphine addicted rats was compared with that of non-addicted ones us...

Nowadays, oral anticoagulants are commonly prescribed to numerous patients for preventing cardiovascular accident such as thromboembolism. An important side effect of anticoagulant is anti-hemostasis. In a major surgery, the oral anticoagulant therapy (OAT) regimen must be changed before the surgery for proper post-operative bleeding control. However, in a minor dental surgery and endodontic su...