A prospective clinical evaluation of the effects of XXXX , warm saline mouth washes and microbial growth on intraoral sutures.

@entity1 @entity1216 @entity273 @entity7495 @entity1443
INTRODUCTION: Post operative care of sutured wound is important after surgery. Sutured wounds within the oral cavity are kept clean through frequent rinses with either normal saline, @entity1216 mouth rinses, @entity273 diluted with saline, or fresh tap water. @entity1 AND METHODS: The @entity1 were randomised into 3 groups (A, B and C). The container used had 34 @entity1216 , 34 warm saline and 32 warm water mouth rinses. The latter served as control. All selected @entity1 had scaling and polishing done preoperatively when needed. All @entity1 in each group did not receive antibiotics but received analgesics ( @entity1443 1  g 8  h for 5  days,). RESULTS: There were 49 females and 51 males, in the age range between 18 and 50  years. Microorganisms were found to grow on sutures with streptococcus viridians predominating followed by staphylococcus epidermides. The effects of @entity1216 , warm saline and warm tap water mouth washes were not statistically significant. CONCLUSION: @entity1216 , warm salt water and warm tap water averagely produced the same number of @entity7495 , which shows that the three different mouth washes are equally effective as post-operative mouth rinses after oral surgery.
