Soleh, Mohamad Sufi and Cheong, Joo Ming and Mohd Ibrahim, Mohamad Shafiq (2024) Effects of sugar-free chewing gum in patients wearing orthodontic intermaxillary elastic: a preliminary study. International Journal of Allied Health Sciences, 8 (3). p. 99. E-ISSN 2600-8491
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Abstract
PURPOSE: To investigate the effects of sugar-free chewing gum in minimizing orthodontic pain, use of analgesic medications, appliance breakages and elastic dislodgement associated with intermaxillary elastics wear. METHODS: This was a randomized controlled trial with 1:1 allocation ratio. 28 patients were randomly allocated to sugar-free chewing gum (CG) and non-chewing gum (NG) groups. Patients in the CG were instructed to chew sugar-free gum for 5 minutes immediately after orthodontic intermaxillary elastics wear and then at 12-h intervals for 3 days. All patients were allowed to take analgesics. Pain score was recorded using a visual analogue scale at all eight time-points, including baseline score, along with any use of analgesics, appliance breakages and elastics dislodgement. Data were evaluated using independent t-test, Mann Whitney U test, one-way repeated measures ANOVA and Chi Square test. RESULTS: The pain scores were significantly lower in the CG compared to the NG at 24, 48, 60, and 72 hours after elastic wear. Analysis using one-way repeated measures ANOVA showed that there were statistically significant differences in the grand mean pain scores between the two groups (p = 0.005), with the CG having significantly lower pain scores (1.50) compared to the NG (3.2). However, no significant differences were found between the groups across all the time intervals (p = 0.262). Furthermore, no significant associations were observed between the groups regarding analgesic uptake, appliance breakages, and elastic dislodgement. CONCLUSION: The use of sugar-free chewing gum may reduce orthodontic pain associated with intermaxillary elastics wear and no evidence that chewing gum increased the incidence of appliance breakages and elastic dislodgement.
| Item Type: | Article (Abstract) |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Orthodontics, Pain, Chewing gum |
| Subjects: | R Medicine > RK Dentistry |
| Kulliyyahs/Centres/Divisions/Institutes (Can select more than one option. Press CONTROL button): | Kulliyyah of Dentistry Kulliyyah of Dentistry > Department of Orthodontics Kulliyyah of Dentistry > Department of Paediatric Dentistry and Dental Public Health |
| Depositing User: | Dr Joo Ming Cheong |
| Date Deposited: | 11 Sep 2024 09:31 |
| Last Modified: | 12 Sep 2024 08:46 |
| URI: | http://irep.iium.edu.my/id/eprint/114361 |
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