Avaliação comparativa da acupuntura sistêmica e auricular no controle da ansiedade pré-operatória em cirurgias odontológicas de 3º molar inferior

Abstract

Pre-operative anxiety is a deleterious event that affects a large number of people in different degrees and their control in the dental surgery then becomes of paramount importance in clinical practice, it brings more comfort for both patients and for the surgeon to evaluate the clinical effectiveness of auricular acupuncture and systemic control of anxiety before and during surgery of the third lower molars. The patients were divided at random into three groups: systemic group consisting of 12 subjects treated with systemic acupuncture before surgery; auricular group, consisting of 13 patients treated with auricular acupuncture before surgical procedures and control group, consisting of 12 individuals who received no treatment before surgery The assessment of therapeutic effectiveness was based on measurement of anxiety conducted in two forms: objective, through the measurement of blood pressure and heart rate, and subjective, through two types of visual analog scales (VAS). The results obtained from the systemic group and from the auricular group as to the objective evaluation in blood pressure were not statistically significant (p> 0.05) though there was a significant variation in heart rate (p <0.05) evidenced by the decrease in their values when compared before and after treatment. As to the subjective evaluation significant results were obtained by the two treatment groups (P <0.05), demonstrated by the decrease in scores when compared before and after treatment with each type of acupuncture. We conclude that the systemic and auricular acupuncture proved to be important methods of treatment of preoperative anxiety in dental surgery, since they have achieved a significant degree of reliability that makes us suggest its use for this purpose.