Oral post-surgical healing with polyglycolic acid suture
1 Doctor Medicine and Surgery, Magister Science Pharmacology. University Foundation UniCIEO Bogotá, Colombia.
2 Dentist University Javeriana, Specialist in Oral Implantology. University Foundation UniCIEO. Bogotá, Colombia.
3 Dentist University Medellin Colombia, Special in Oral Implantology, University Foundation UniCIEO, Bogota, Colombia.
Research Article
Open Access Research Journal of Biology and Pharmacy, 2022, 05(02), 082–087.
Article DOI: 10.53022/oarjbp.2022.5.2.0056
Publication history:
Received on 30 June 2022; revised on 04 August 2022; accepted on 06 August 2022
Abstract:
Objective: To improve oral post-surgical cycatrization with the use of resorbable polyglycolic acid (PGA) suture in patients undergoing dental implant surgery, by clinical assessment of signs of infection at 8, 15 and 30 days post-surgery.
Method: Prospective analytical clinical research in patients of the Dental Implantology Clinic of the UniCIEO University Foundation, who underwent dental implant surgery and/or site adaptation for the placement of future implants (alveoli preservation, maxillary sinus graft and exodontics) and with the useof PGA 3.0s and 4.0s suture. They were carried out clinical controls at 8, 15 and 30 days post-surgery to evaluate the presence of pain, edema, flushing, tissue confrontation and loss of stitches.
Results: Total of the sample 19 patients (26 procedures), 13 women and 6 men with average age of 60.05 years, total of implants placed 57, with guided bone regeneration 8 patients, graft in maxillary sinus 6 patients and exodontics 3 patients. The symptoms of pain, edema and flushing were decreasing from 8 days after surgery to disappear at 30 days, with a significant difference (Chi square p = 0.012).
Conclusion: The use of resorbable polyglycolic acid (PGA) suture in oral implantology procedures presents a good healing process and the minimum biological complications disappeared after 30 days post-surgery.
Keywords:
Polyglycolic acid; Oral Healing; Resorbable suture Biological Complications. Polyglycolic Suture
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