What constitutes a clinically important pain reduction in patients after third molar surgery?

Pain Research and Management

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 319-322

  Martin, Wilhelmus Jjm ^a   Ashton James, C E ^a,b   Skorpil, N E ^a   Heymans, M W ^a   Forouzanfar, T ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Global perceived effect; Pain rating; Pain reduction; Third molar surgery; Visual analogue scale

Indexed keywords

ABSOLUTE PAIN REDUCTION; ADULT; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL CLASSIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GLOBAL PERCEIVED EFFECT SCORE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; MOLAR TOOTH; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PAIN INTENSITY; PAIN PARAMETERS; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PREDICTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RELATIVE PAIN REDUCTION; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURGICAL PATIENT; TOOTH EXTRACTION; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOLAR, THIRD; ORAL SURGICAL PROCEDURES; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84894475646     PISSN: 12036765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2013/742468     Document Type: Article

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