Background:
This study was designed to compare effect of combined use of dexamethasone and honey versus each agent alone in controlling complications associated with removal of impacted mandibular third molar.
Methods:
This randomized clinical study included patients suffering from impacted mandibular wisdom teeth. Patients were divided randomly into 4 groups. Group I, control, group II, received dexamethasone injection preoperatively, group III, received honey locally in the wound after extraction, and group IV, received dexamethasone injection preoperatively and topical honey application. All patients were evaluated preoperatively and postoperatively to assess facial edema, interincisal distance, pain, and total analgesic dose used.
Results:
Significant edema developed in group I than other groups and improved significantly in group II and III on seventh postoperative day, and tenth postoperative day in group I. Insignificant edema developed in group IV. Significant decrease in interincisal distance occurred in all groups on third postoperative day that improved significantly on seventh postoperative days in all groups except group I, it improved on tenth postoperative day. Pain was significantly minimum in group IV than other groups and its maximum degree was in group I.
Conclusion:
Both dexamethasone and honey are an effective way of minimizing swelling, pain, and trismus after removal of impacted lower third molars. Both agents either alone or in combination provide simple, safe, painless, and cost-effective method to eliminate postoperative discomfort. However, dexamethasone or honey can decrease complications related to surgical extraction of mandibular third molar, the simultaneous application of both agents is more effective method in this regard.
<abstract><p>We investigate an Ishikawa iteration process in the set up of generalized $ \alpha $- nonexpansive mappings. Approximation of these two mappings to a common fixed point by $ \Delta- $convergence and strong convergence of the scheme in hyperbolic space are also illustrated. The presented results amplify and polish many recent ideas put forward in uniformly convex Banach spaces, including CAT(0) spaces.</p></abstract>
The present paper seeks to illustrate approximation theorems to the fixed point for generalized
α
-nonexpansive mapping with the Mann iteration process. Furthermore, the same results are established with the Ishikawa iteration process in the uniformly convex Banach space setting. The presented results expand and refine many of the recently reported results in the literature.
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