Assessment of postoperative outcome and patient’s life quality after different oral surgery procedure

The aim of this study was to evaluate patient postoperative outcome and quality of life after different oral surgery procedures in everyday practice. The study consisted of 60 patients referred for oral surgical treatment cystectomy, operative extraction of impacted tooth and sinus plastic. Two operator were carrying out the treatments. All patients were given a questionnaire with 6 questions to evaluate their quality of life for 10 days after the oral surgery interventions. The clinical outcome was evaluate for 10 days after surgery, too. The average time needed for completion the surgical procedure was approximately 70 minutes. The results showed that patients with cystectomy reported significantly more pain and took significantly more analgesics, as well as the patients with extracted impacted molars reported significantly more difficulty in mouth opening, mastication, and the ability to speak. As a conclusion high incidence of symptoms were reported by the patients in all groups. There were no significant differences found in the distribution of patients according to age, gender, diagnosis, and site of operation between the groups. The operative extraction procedure of impacted teeth provided significantly less postoperative pain, but more difficulties in mouth opening, mastication, and the ability to speak immediately postoperatively