What Constitutes a Clinically Important Pain Reduction in Patients after Third Molar Surgery?

BACKGROUND: For patients with surgical third molar removal, it is unknown what constitutes a clinically important change in patients’ visual analogue scale (VAS) reports of pain intensity.

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Main Authors: Wilhelmus JJM Martin, CE Ashton-James, NE Skorpil, MW Heymans, T Forouzanfar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2013-01-01
Series:Pain Research and Management
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/742468
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spelling doaj-art-704f78688c994a51ae2fd6ffad3044142025-02-03T01:12:34ZengWileyPain Research and Management1203-67652013-01-0118631932210.1155/2013/742468What Constitutes a Clinically Important Pain Reduction in Patients after Third Molar Surgery?Wilhelmus JJM Martin0CE Ashton-James1NE Skorpil2MW Heymans3T Forouzanfar4Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery/Oral Pathology, VU University Medical Center/Academic Centre for Dentistry Amsterdam, NetherlandsDepartment of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery/Oral Pathology, VU University Medical Center/Academic Centre for Dentistry Amsterdam, NetherlandsDepartment of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery/Oral Pathology, VU University Medical Center/Academic Centre for Dentistry Amsterdam, NetherlandsDepartment of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, NetherlandsDepartment of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery/Oral Pathology, VU University Medical Center/Academic Centre for Dentistry Amsterdam, NetherlandsBACKGROUND: For patients with surgical third molar removal, it is unknown what constitutes a clinically important change in patients’ visual analogue scale (VAS) reports of pain intensity.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/742468
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