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OPEN DENTISTRY JOURNAL
Volume 12, Issue -, Pages 181-188Publisher
BENTHAM SCIENCE PUBL LTD
DOI: 10.2174/1874210601812010181
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Third molar; Wisdom tooth; Oral surgery; Corticosteroids; Postoperative pain; Edema; Trismus
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The aim of this systematic review and meta-analysis was to compare the clinical efficacy of two routes of dexamethasone administration in reducing the postoperative sequelae after third molar extraction. Electronic databases (PUBMED, SCOPUS and EBSCO library) were screened in order to find both randomized and non-randomized clinical trials that directly compare the submucosal intraoral or the intramuscular extraoral administration of dexamethasone. No restriction about year of publication was imposed. About 340 titles and abstracts were screened independently by two authors. Of these [340 titles], only 4 randomized clinical trials met the inclusion criteria and were included in the meta-analysis. No statistical differences in postoperative pain, swelling and trismus were recorded comparing the intraoral submucosal and the extraoral intramuscular injection of dexamethasone in an extraoral site.
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