EFFECTIVENESS OF AURICULAR ACUPRESSURE TO CONTROL THE POST-OPERATIVE DENTAL EXTRACTION PAIN: A HOSPITAL BASED INTERVENTIONAL STUDY

A HOSPITAL BASED STUDY FOR EFFECTIVENESS OF AURICULAR ACUPRESSURE IN CONTROLLING POST- EXTRACTION PAIN

Abstract

Background: Pain being one of the important factors which is unbearable by patients and their often turn-up to the clinician due to pain. Here is an innovative treatment to control pain, the auricular acupressure which is a traditional medicine of China which serves as an emerging treatment in both medical and dental sciences.

Aim: This study aims to assess the effectiveness of auricular acupressure to control post-operative dental extraction pain.

Setting and design: The study was an interventional study conducted in hospital set-up.

Material and methods: One eighty individuals participated in the study which was conducted among the individual undergone extraction. The recruited participant were divided into 2 groups, shenmen auricular acupressure points were given to the experimental group and placebo auricular acupressure points were given to the control group. Verbal descriptor scale was recorded to know the degree of pain in both the study groups.

Statistical analysis: Inferential statistics were calculated for all the variables recorded in our study using SPSS software version 26.0.

Results: One way Anova was done to assess the effectiveness of auricular acupressure group over the placebo group using the visual pain scale and found an statistically significant result which obtained an P-Value <0.005.

Conclusion: This study found that auricular acupressure shenmen point is proven to be statistically significant and reduces the post operative dental extraction pain.