Aggressive periodontitis comes with serious psychological challenges and severe morbidity. Prompt diagnosis and effective management hold the key to success It is important to investigate why many of the cases seen in our center presented that late. Could be due to ignorance and poverty or could be due to failure of dentists recognize these cases and consequent misdiagnosis? Further studies are needed to answer these questions.
Background: Surgical extraction of the impacted mandibular third molar is associated with intraoperative and
postoperative complications, subsequently affecting the patient's wellbeing and reducing the quality of life especially in
the week following surgery. Quality of life records are better outcome parameters than clinical variables because it assesses multiple aspects of
life. The wound closure technique is an operative factor reported to affect the severity of postoperative complications. If these affectation would
translate into any difference in the overall quality of life is yet to be studied. Therefore, there was need to compare the quality of life of two widely
varied techniques - the complete closure and the non-closure (sutureless). This wa Methods: s a prospective, randomised clinical study carried
out at the Dental and Maxillofacial Surgery department of a tertiary hospital from December 2019 to November 2020. Seventy-four participants
were randomized into a complete closure group and a sutureless technique group. They were subjected to the procedure under similar conditions
and thereafter followed up for 1 week to assess the changes in their quality of life using the modied OHIP-14 questionnaire. Variables were
recorded and analysed using the SPSS (v 25.0). The critical level of signicance was set at P<0.05. There was no statistically signicant Results:
difference in the overall QoL changes (p<0.05) although the sutureless technique had less affectation in the speaking domain. There Conclusion:
was no statistically signicant difference in quality of life between complete closure and sutureless techniques following impacted mandibular
third molar extraction.
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