Comparative Evaluation Of Two Oral Gels On Soft Tissue Healing After Implant Surgery A Randomized Double Blinded Clinical Trial

Abstract

Aim: newlineTo assess the efficacy of the therapeutic oral gel and its effects on soft newlinetissue healing at the implant surgical site. newlineMaterials and Methods: newlineThe study was conducted in the Department of Implantology at newlineSaveetha Dental College and Hospital from 2018 to 2019. In preoperative newlineassessment systematically healthy patients required dental implant newlineplacement was included in this study. All included patients were divided newlineinto three groups equally and were given oxygen-enriched gel, newlinechlorhexidine gel and a placebo gel respectively (OEG group, CHX newlinegroup, Control group). The patients were advised to apply the therapeutic newlinegels, twice a day on the implant placement site. The examiner was trained newlineto evaluate EHS (Early wound healing score) and IPR (Inflammatory newlineproliferative and remodelling) scale before starting the study. Patients newlinerevisited to evaluate the EHS and IPR scores on 1st day, 3rd newline- 5 newlineth day and newline14th day and 6th week. Kruskal - Wallis test was used to compare newlinewithin these groups. newlineResults: newlineA total of 92 patients were involved in this study out of which 8 newlinepatients dropped out and a total of 84 patients were included. The OEG newlinegroup showed the best results followed by the CHX Group in the early wound healing, the inflammatory and proliferative phase at a 5% level of newlinesignificance (plt0.05). newlineConclusion: newlineIn conclusion, the EHS and IPR result shows significant differences newlinewith the compared groups. Application of the oxygen enriched gel newlineperformed better than 1% chlorhexidine gel group during different phases newlineof healing. The use of therapeutic gel positively affects wound healing newlineindicating therapeutic gel post implant surgeries newline