Cryotherapy - Following Intraoral Surgeries and for Treatment of Oral Lesions : A Review

B. Lokesh¹, S. Jimson², T. Muthumani³, J. Parthiban⁴, B. Anandh⁵

¹MDS, Senior Lecturer, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Tagore Dental College and Hospital, Rathinamangalam, Melakottaiyur Post, Chennai – 600127 ²S.Jimson MDS, (Research Scholar – Bharath University), Professor and Head, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Tagore Dental College and Hospital, Rathinamangalam, Melakottaiyur Post, Chennai – 600127 ³T. Muthumani, Reader, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial surgery, Sree Balaji Dental College, Bharath University, Pallikaranai, Chennai-600100 ⁴J.Parthiban , MDS, Reader, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Tagore Dental College and Hospital, Rathinamangalam, Melakottaiyur Post, Chennai – 600127 ⁵B.Anandh MDS, Senior Lecturer, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Tagore Dental College and Hospital, Rathinamangalam, Melakottaiyur Post, Chennai – 600127

Abstract: Many intraoral surgeries that involve reflection of mucoperiosteal flaps with or without the removal of bone are followed by varying degrees of facial swelling. In an attempt to minimize or limit this swelling, many oral and maxillofacial surgeons and periodontists, advice patients to apply cold dressings to the affected side of the face during the first few hours after the operation. This regimen is advocated in many text books of oral and maxillofacial surgery and Periodontics. Cryotherapy has been used in Oral Medicine and Pathology for over 30 years.

Keywords: Cryotherapy; Oral lesions; Intraoral surgeries  

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