Piezosurgical vs Conventional Exodontia Surgery in Healthy and Patients With Diabetes Mellitus Type 2

Numerical Rating Scale, measuring pain intensity ranging from 0 (no pain) to 10 (the worst pain imaginable)

3 scoring levels for each of the 4 parameters considered: tissue color (1 = 100% of gingiva pink; 2 = <50% of gingiva red, hyper- emic, movable; 3 = >50% of gingiva red, hyperemic, movable), color and consistency of the healing tissue (1 = close grained, pink; 2 = soft, red; 3 = fragile, greenish or grayish), suppuration (1 = absent; 2 = absent but pronounced amount of plaque around socket walls; 3 = pronounced), and bleeding (1 = absent; 2 = induced by palpation; 3 = spontaneous). Thus, the scoring scale ranged from 4, corresponding to excellent healing, to 12, indicating severely impaired healing.

time between the end of procedure and first pain experienced by the patient measured in minutes

time from the end of the procedure until first analgesic consumption measured in minutes

clinical appearance of the soft tissues (Visual Analogue Scale 0 to 3, according to the color and presence of edema and bleeding; ie, 0, normally pink, not edematous; 1, pink-red, slightly edematous; 2, red, edematous; and 3, red, edematous, bled easily when touched

the residual socket volume (RSV) is the fraction of the postextraction original cavity still open at each follow-up session (t = 3, 7, 14, and 21 days), computed as the ratio of mesiodistal (MD), bucolingual (BL) and socket depth (SD) at the follow-up session to the baseline value (t=0), measured after extraction (perfect closure corresponds to RSV = 0.00)

Epithelialization was measured as bucolingual and mesiodistal diameter of the extraction socket during the follow-up (3, 7, 14 and 21 postoperative day), expressed in millimeters

detected by Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Essay method

detected by Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Essay method

detected by Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Essay method

Activity level detected by spectrophotometry using SOD Assay kit