{"status":"ok","message-type":"work","message-version":"1.0.0","message":{"indexed":{"date-parts":[[2025,6,4]],"date-time":"2025-06-04T06:27:28Z","timestamp":1749018448880},"reference-count":0,"publisher":"MRE Press","content-domain":{"domain":[],"crossmark-restriction":false},"short-container-title":[],"published-print":{"date-parts":[[2023]]},"abstract":"<jats:p>To evaluate parental reports of postoperative pain, improvement and satisfaction following frenectomy with scalpel versus carbon dioxide (CO2) laser treatment. Forty-nine patients aged 2\u20136 years with a short labial or lingual frenulum who required frenectomy were randomly assigned to undergo CO2 laser or scalpel treatment. They were divided into a labial and a lingual frenulum group based on the severity of attachment. Frenectomy was performed using a scalpel or Pixel CO2 10,600 nm laser (Alma Lasers Company, Caesarea, Israel). Postoperative follow-up was conducted via a mobile application where pain was evaluated daily using the visual analog scale (VAS) in the first 72 hours, and painkiller use was recorded. Improvement and satisfaction were evaluated at 1-month post-surgery and compared among the groups. Our results showed significant differences between the degree of clinical attachment of the frenulum, one-month postoperative improvement and satisfaction based on VAS scores (p &lt; 0.001). Although the use of scalpel was associated with lower postoperative pain scores than the CO2 groups, VAS scores of improvement and satisfaction after 1 month were higher in the CO2 groups (p &lt; 0.05). This study showed that although laser was associated with more postoperative pain, it showed greater improvement and higher satisfaction among patients\u2019 parents at 1 month post-surgery compared with scalpel.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.22514\/jocpd.2023.079","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,11,3]],"date-time":"2023-11-03T07:43:31Z","timestamp":1698997411000},"source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["Evaluation of parental perceptions of lingual and labial frenectomy on their child: a comparison of CO2 laser and conventional scalpel"],"prefix":"10.22514","member":"26027","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023]]},"container-title":["Journal of Clinical Pediatric Dentistry"],"original-title":[],"language":"en","deposited":{"date-parts":[[2023,11,8]],"date-time":"2023-11-08T08:05:57Z","timestamp":1699430757000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/www.jocpd.com\/articles\/10.22514\/jocpd.2023.079"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2023]]},"references-count":0,"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.22514\/jocpd.2023.079","relation":{},"ISSN":["1557-5268","1053-4628"],"issn-type":[{"value":"1557-5268","type":"electronic"},{"value":"1053-4628","type":"print"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2023]]}}}