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THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE SYMPTOMS OF THE PATIENTS AND POST-SURGICAL APPLICATION OF ANTIBIOTICS IN ORTHOGNATHIC SURGERY  

Kang, Sang-Hoon (Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, College of Dentistry, Yonsei University)
Yoo, Jae-Ha (Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, College of Dentistry, Yonsei University)
Yi, Choong-Kook (Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, College of Dentistry, Yonsei University)
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Maxillofacial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery / v.29, no.4, 2007 , pp. 329-332 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study compared and evaluated the variation of patients' symptoms depending on whether or not antibiotics had been used in the recovery period after the orthognathic surgery. 28 patients, with no particular medical history, were divided into two groups on the basis of whether antibiotics had been applied after the orthognathic surgery. All patients had been operated on maxilla and mandible simultaneously and were investigated with any symptom changes within the postoperative 4 days. Among the symptoms that could follow after the orthognathic surgery, 6 symptoms were checked every 24 hours on 5 points basis. Phases of each symptom improvements were checked and analyzed by ANOVA statistical method. Aspects of symptom changes according to application of antibiotics showed no statistical significance. Symptoms, except for swelling, showed continuous improvements after the surgery. Swelling increased until postoperative $2^{nd}\;day$, and then started to decrease. This study shows that post-surgical use of antibiotics has no significance provided that post-surgical infection had not occurred.
Keywords
Orthognathic surgery; Antibiotics; Symptoms;
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