THE ROLE OF CORTICOSTEROIDS FOR CONTROL POSTOPERATIVE PAIN AND EDEMA IN ORAL SURGERY

Relief of pain and edema after oral surgical ,oral implantology procedures is the key point to provide a beter wound healing and more comfortable recovery period for patients.nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs, corticosteroids, peripherally applied opioids, serotonin (5-ht) antagonists and local anesthetics can be administered to eliminate postoperative pain and edema.corticosteroid drugs are chemical analogs of cortisol, which secreted from adrenal cortex. they show same effetcs with cortisol and can be used to achive antiinflammatory effect after oral surgical procedures. a literature search was conducted using pubmed database to identify studies related to this topic using the keywords of corticosteroids, pain, edema, antiinflammatory effect published years between 1977-2011. the purpose of this composition is, to inform about corticosteroid use in dentistry especially in oral surgery and oral implantology after the procedure and review the lastest approaches of this thema. according to our findings, corticosteroids can be administered by setting the appropriate dose and duration to relief postoperatvie pain and edema if there is no contraindications.