Abstract

MOREJON ALVAREZ, Felicia; DEL PINO MALAGON, Esteban  and  MOREJON ALVAREZ, Tailín. Effectiveness of magnetotherapy to treat alveolitis. Rev Ciencias Médicas [online]. 2011, vol.15, n.2, pp. 87-96. ISSN 1561-3194.

Alveolitis is one of the most frequent complications of dental extraction, and many patients complain about it, being conventional treatment the most used to cure it; finding other effective therapies to cure the alveolar process is of interest; therefore a longitudinal, prospective and descriptive research was conducted with the purpose of determining the effectiveness of magnetotherapy in alveolitis, supported on clinical evolution of patients: cured, better and equal. This research was carried out at "Abel Santamaria Cuadrado" General University Hospital from January to October 2010. The target group was comprised of 112 patients who attended to maxillofacial surgery, out of them, 64 patients was the sample taken. Inclusion and exclusion criteria were followed. To carry out the statistical analysis absolute, relative and chi square no parametric tests, taking also the level of significance á=0,005 were applied. Subjects who underwent the treatment were chosen at random, leaving 32 patients: control group and study group. In patients suffering from dry and humid alveolitis at three-day magnetotherapy 84, 6% and 89, 4% were clinically better; those following the conventional treatment ( 5 to 7 days) showed only 27,3% of improvement. The majority of patients with magnetotherapy were cured at a five-day treatment and pain remission as well, resulting in the effectiveness of magnetotherapy to treat alveolitis.

Keywords : Alveolitis [diagnosis]; dental extraction; magnetotherapy [classification].

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