A comparison of two types of dresses on healing and induced pain after surgical depigmentation

Abstract

Background And Aim Of Study: To compare the efficacy of ROS dressing with Agenol-free Coe-pack dressing and the effect of each on induced pain and healing of periodontal tissues after surgical removal of melanoma pigmentations.

Materials and Methods: The research sample included 20 patients, their ages ranged between (20-40) years, complaining of physiological gingival pigmentation in the upper jaw, and the pigmentation was removed using a surgical scalpel with a time difference of one week between the right half (the control sample) where the traditional dressing was applied Aginol-free Coe-pack and the left half (study sample) where the active oxygen dressing was applied, and the side of each dressing was randomly selected for each patient.The induced pain sensor was evaluated a week after surgery for each side by applying an air current to the workplace Surgical for 5 seconds and then the amount of pain was recorded according to the VAS visual analogue scale, the tissue healing index was evaluated using a sensor (Landry1985).

Results: The induced pain index scores in the active oxygen group were statistically significantly lower than in the traditional dressing group (P<0.01) after one week of surgery, in addition to a statistically significant difference between the two study groups in the healing index results in favor of the active oxygen group after (One to two weeks).

Conclusions: The active oxygen can be considered as a good dressing and an effective alternative to the traditional againol-free dressing due to its properties and active substances that play a biological role in accelerating and improving the quality of postoperative healing in contrast to the role of the traditional dressing that is limited to being a physical barrier only.