After the extraction of the impacted lower wisdom tooth, the wound area was closed using tissue adhesive.

After the extraction of the impacted lower wisdom tooth, the wound area was closed using silk sutures.

One of the most frequently performed procedures in maxillofacial surgery is impacted wisdom tooth surgery. An impacted tooth is defined as a tooth that is not fully or partially erupted and is blocked from eruption by another tooth, bone, or soft tissue, and thus has a low probability of eruption. The tooth is blocked from eruption by adjacent hard or soft tissue, including bone or dense soft tissue. The most common complications after impacted wisdom tooth surgery are pain, edema, trismus, and alveolar osteitis.

All patients were called for follow-up visits on the 3rd day and 1 week later and were examined by the same physician. During the follow-up visits, the status of wound healing was evaluated in 3 different statuses. These 3 statuses were recorded as good, acceptable and poor. Wound healing deteriorated from good to poor.

In order to evaluate edema, the distances between points marked extra orally in 5 different regions on the face were measured and recorded in mm (angulus-tragus point, angulus-lateral corner of the eye, angulus-nasal wing, angulus-lateral commissure, angulus-pogonion point).

The evaluation of trismus was evaluated by measuring the mouth opening before the operation and also on the 3rd and 7th days after the operation. The patients were asked to open their mouths as much as possible and the distance between the incisal edges of the lower and upper central incisors was measured in millimeters with the help of a precision ruler. This process was repeated 3 times for each measurement and the arithmetic average of the values found was taken.

VAS (Visual Analog Scale) was used for pain assessment. VAS pain assessment includes scores between 0 and 10. (0: no pain; 10: unbearable pain.) As the score increases, the pain worsens.