Introduction:

exodontia is that part of oral surgery that deals with the extraction of a tooth or portion of it, by means of techniques and appropriate instruments from the bone bed that houses it. The application of acupuncture surgical analgesia is an effective option for stomatologists to perform this treatment due to the advantages it offers.

Objective:

to determine the effectiveness of exodontia performed with acupuncture surgical analgesia.

Method:

a quasi-experimental study was carried out at the Francisco Peña University Polyclinic of the Nuevitas municipality between January 2019 and January 2020. The universe was constituted by 73 patients who needed an exodontia as stomatological treatment and a sample of 46 patients was selected by the simple random method. Theoretical, empirical and statistical-mathematical methods were used.

Results:

female sex predominated and the most frequent age group was 46 to 55 years old. Transoperative pain intensity in both jaws ranged from absent to mild, with only one case of moderate pain. The optimal time for acupuncture analgesia was shorter in the maxilla than in the mandible. No adverse reactions were reported in the patients treated.

Conclusions:

surgical acupuncture analgesia is a procedure with scientific basis in continuous. development. Its indication for exodontia in stomatology is an, economical effective, safe and innocuous method.

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