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Extraction of mandibular wisdom teeth is the most common operation in oral surgery treatment. However, it is an invasive and stressful procedure for the patient. Recently, a method has been developed to evaluate autonomic nervous activity using heart rate variability as a stress indicator. In this study, we investigated the influence of mandibular wisdom tooth extraction on autonomic nervous activity.
The study included 28 healthy patients who had undergone mandibular wisdom tooth extraction under local anesthesia. The measures were subjective anxiety, heart rate and LF/HF. The VAS was used for subjective anxiety. Heart rate and LF/HF were measured continuously using a wearable heart rate sensor.
The results showed that patients had more sympathetic nervous activity before and after tooth extraction than during tooth extraction. It is suggested that mental burden may have a greater effect on autonomic activity than physical invasion.
