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Study aim
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Determining the clinical effect of photodynamic therapy with nano-emodin on palatal wound healing after free gum graft surgery.
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Design
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This study will be conducted as a controlled, triple double and parallel clinical trial on 51 patients. after graft harvesting, The patients will be randomly using a computerized block randomization process divided into three groups.
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Settings and conduct
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The study will be conducted in the Department of Periodontology, Faculty of Dentistry, Tehran University of Medical Sciences. Patients will be randomly divided into three groups receiving gel containing nano-emodin alone, group receiving gel containing nano-emodin and photodynamic therapy and control (receive placebo without radiation). Patients, clinical examiners and epidemiologists were blind to the study.
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Participants/Inclusion and exclusion criteria
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Patients over 18 years of age and systemically healthy that they need free gingival graft with a maximum width of 10 mm and a length of 15 to 25 mm were included in the study.
smokers, take medications, or have conditions that interfere with wound healing were excluded from the study.
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Intervention groups
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After harvesting the graft from the palatal, the patients were divided into three groups, in the two test groups, nano-emodin gel was applied for 5 minutes with and without LED laser radiation to the effect of photodynamic therapy, on the palate wound. In the control group, only placebo gel is used, and in all groups, a surgical dressing is placed on the wound.
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Main outcome variables
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Investigate the amount of epithelialization by 3% hydrogen peroxide
Measurement of the remaining wound area using ImageJ software
Measurement color matching with Photoshop using standard photographs
The amount of pain based on the VAS scale and the presence or absence of bleeding in the first 11 days after surgery through a questionnaire by the patient