Does low level laser therapy relieve the pain caused by the placement of the orthodontic separators?--A meta-analysis
Shi Q, Yang S, Jia F, Xu J
Head & face medicine · 18 citas
Cómo se estudió
- Diseño
- Metaanálisis (indexado por PubMed)
- Estudiado en
- Personas
- Resultado principal
- Marcadores de salud y funcionamiento
Quién lo pagó
- Financiación
- Financiación independiente
- Universidad u hospital
- Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
Según 1 financiador declarado.
Publicación
- Publicado
- 2015-08-27 · Head Face Med · vol. 11 · número 1 · pág. 28
- Editorial
- BioMed Central
- Citado
- 35 citas · más que el 57% de estudios similares · 0.8× el promedio de su campo
- Referencias
- 31 trabajos
- Acceso
- Acceso abierto (revista) · CC-BY
- Áreas de investigación
- Laser Applications in Dentistry and Medicine · Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics · Pediatric Pain Management Techniques
- Palabras clave
- low-level laser therapy, orthodontic separators, post-insertion pain, analgesia, medication adherence
- MeSH
- humans, pain, pain measurement, analgesia, orthodontic retainers, low-level light therapy
4 autores
- Quan Shi🇨🇳Chinese PLA General Hospital; Chinese People's Liberation Army
- Shuo Yang🇨🇳Chinese PLA General Hospital; Chinese People's Liberation Army
- Fangfang Jia🇨🇳Chinese PLA General Hospital; Chinese People's Liberation Army
- Juan Xu🇨🇳 · autor de correspondenciaChinese PLA General Hospital; Chinese People's Liberation Army
Resumen
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Objective
Pain caused by orthodontic treatment can affect patient's compliance and even force them to terminate treatments. The aim of this meta-analysis is to evaluate of the analgesic effect of low level laser therapy (LLLT) after placement of the orthodontic separators.
Methods
Five databases: PubMed, Embase, Cochrane library, China Biology Medicine disc (SinoMed CBM), China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) were searched for all the appropriate studies in June, 2014. Two reviewers screened the research results under our inclusion criteria and evaluated the risk of bias independently. Then the data of the included studies was extracted for quantitative analysis by the Review Manager 5.1 software.
Results
Six studies were included in our meta-analysis finally. Comparing to the placebo group, the LLLT has good analgesic effect at 6 h, 1d, 2d, 3d after placement of separators which is of statistical significance. While at 2 h, 4d, 5d after the placement, the results tend to support LLLT, but not statistically significant.
Conclusion
Based on current included studies, LLLT can reduce the pain caused by the placement of separators effectively. However, because of the high heterogeneity, well designed RCTs are required in the future.
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