Open AccessTo evaluate the efficacy of buprenorphine and 2% lignocaine with adrenaline as postoperative analgesia following mandibular third molar surgery: A comparative study
Author(s) -
SachinPrakash Bagade,
SanjayS Joshi,
Sneha Punamiya,
Anuradha Malliwal,
Charudatta Naik,
Arsalan Ansari
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
annals of maxillofacial surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.365
H-Index - 6
ISSN - 2231-0746
DOI - 10.4103/ams.ams_416_20
Subject(s) - medicine , buprenorphine , anesthesia , analgesic , bupivacaine , molar , group b , opioid , morphine , surgery , dentistry , receptor
Opioid analgesics have an advantage over nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs in that they do not cause direct organ damage. Buprenorphine has an antinociceptive potency approximately 25-50 times greater than that of morphine. Hence, in this study, buprenorphine was added to local anaesthesia in relieving postoperative pain after lower third molar surgery when given as inferior alveolar nerve block. The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of buprenorphine in managing postoperative pain after lower third molar surgery.