O controle da dor e sua influência na movimentação dentária ortodôntica: uma revisão de literatura

Abstract

Orthodontic treatment aims to correct dental occlusion, moving the teeth with consistent mechanical forces applied to the teeth, and pain is quite common in Orthodontics. The present study aims to review the literature on pain control and its influence on orthodontic tooth movement, in order to seek more scientific evidence on the subject to update professionals. The bibliographic search was carried out in the PubMed, Google Scholar and BVS databases using the descriptors “Pain control”, “Orthodontic movement” and “Orthodontics”, initially totaling 94 bibliographic references. Articles published in the years 2017 to 2021, in english, portuguese and spanish languages, were selected. Systematic, integrative and literature reviews were excluded when choosing articles from the database. The literature points out several methods of pain control during tooth movement in orthodontic treatment, both pharmacological, such as analgesics and anti-inflammatory drugs, and non- pharmacological, such as laser therapy, behavioral therapy and chewing gum. Evidence on the mechanism of pain in Orthodontics is increasingly consolidated, and there are periodically new studies on pain control methods, whether pharmacological or non-pharmacological, where the latter are growing every day and often having similar efficacy.