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Ibuprofen superior to paracetamol for pain relief following the third molar removal
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Ibuprofen is superior to paracetamol for pain relief following third molar removal suggests a recent study published in the Evidence-Based Dentistry.
The Cochrane Oral Health Group's Trials Register, the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL), Medline, Embase and the metaRegister of Controlled Trials were searched with no language restrictions.
Randomised controlled double-blinded clinical trials using the third molar model were included. Two review authors independently and in duplicate extracted data. The proportion of patients with at least 50% pain relief (based on total pain relief (TOTPAR) and summed pain intensity difference (SPID) data) was calculated for all three drugs at both two and six hours post-dosing and meta-analysed for comparison.
Results
• Seven studies involving 2241 patients were included.
• Two studies were considered to be at low risk of bias, three at high risk and two unclear risk of bias. Ibuprofen was found to be a superior analgesic to paracetamol at several doses, with high quality evidence suggesting that ibuprofen 400 mg is superior to 1000 mg paracetamol based on pain relief (estimated from TOTPAR data) and the use of rescue medication meta-analyses.
• Risk ratio (RR) for at least 50% pain relief (based on TOTPAR) at six hours was 1.47 favouring 400 mg ibuprofen over 1000 mg paracetamol, RR for not using rescue medication (also favouring ibuprofen) was 1.50
• For combined drug RR for at least 50% of the maximum pain relief over six hours of 1.77 (paracetamol 1000 mg and ibuprofen 400 mg) (one trial; moderate quality evidence).
• RR not using rescue medication 1.60 (two trials; moderate quality evidence).
• Adverse events were comparable between the treatment groups, but no formal analysis could be undertaken.
There is high quality evidence that ibuprofen is superior to paracetamol at doses of 200 mg to 512 mg and 600 mg to 1000 mg respectively based on pain relief and use of rescue medication data collected at six hours postoperatively. The majority of this evidence (five out of six trials) compared ibuprofen 400 mg with paracetamol 1000 mg, these are the most frequently prescribed doses in clinical practice. The novel combination drug is showing encouraging results based on the outcomes from two trials when compared to the single drugs.
Reference:
Ferraiolo, D., Veitz-Keenan, A. Ibuprofen is superior to paracetamol for pain relief following third molar removal. Evid Based Dent 15, 106–107 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.ebd.6401059
Dr. Shravani Dali has completed her BDS from Pravara institute of medical sciences, loni. Following which she extensively worked in the healthcare sector for 2+ years. She has been actively involved in writing blogs in field of health and wellness. Currently she is pursuing her Masters of public health-health administration from Tata institute of social sciences. She can be contacted at editorial@medicaldialogues.in.
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