Fazal-ur Rehman Qazi, Shahbaz Ahmed Jat, Arshad Hasan, Yawarali Abidi.
Frequency and Severity of Post-operative Pain in Recently Placed Amalgam Restorations.
J Pak Dent Assoc Jan ;21(3):136-40.

OBJECTIVE: The amalgam restorations are associated with postoperative sensitivity which reduces with the passage of time. The objective of this study was to find out the severity of postoperative pain in routinely placed amalgamrestorations. METHODOLOGY: This yearlong study was conducted at Department of Operative Dentistry, Fatima Jinnah Dental College. It was a cross-sectional study based on one hundred patient’s complaint about pain that they experienced following placement of a restoration of a moderate Class I or II carious lesion. This information was collected by 3 questionnaires, consisting of day 1, 4, and 7 post treatment records.Collected datawas analyzedwith SPSS forwindows version 17 using the Friedman pair test at a ignificance level of 5%. RESULTS Forty four out of hundred patients reported postoperative sensitivity and pain on day 1. This number reduced to only nine patients at day 7, havingminor sensitivity,whichwas verymild and reducing in nature. CONCLUSIONS Postoperative sensitivity in recently placed amalgam restoration subsides in majority of patients after 1week.

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