Abstract

MARTIN REYES, Odalys; LIMA ALVAREZ, Magda; PAZ LATORRE, Elvia  and  LEON PADILLA, María del Carmen. Acupuntural therapy vs alvogil in the alveolitis of the maxillary zone. AMC [online]. 1999, vol.3, n.2. ISSN 1025-0255.

With the aim of assessing the effectiveness of the acupunctural treatment in the alveolitis of the maxillary zone compared with the application of alvogil, and establishing the relationship among the elimination of pain and antecedents of infection, surgical trauma during extraction, type of alveolitis, and defining according to traditional diagnosis the type of alveolitis present? a delayed, open and ramdomized, phase II clinical trial was performed in the Provincial Teaching Dental Clinic of Camagüey from May to December 1997 with a sample of 78 patients which were divided into two groups: study and control, according to the criteria of FDA. The acupunctural schedule was selected as to traditional diagnosis. The treatment was ambulatory. Needles were placed in the elected points during 20 minutes, dispersing or tonicizing as to the indications of each patient in the study group? or alvogil was placed in the control one. Concluding, acupuncture is an effective treatment of election when dry alveolitis occurs with acute or mild pain and antecedents of traumatic exodontia, the syndrome of was the most frequent cause of alveolitis.

Keywords : ACUPUNTURE THERAPY; DRY SOCKET; MEDICINE TRADITIONAL; TOOTH EXTRACTION.

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