Title
Authors
Affiliation
Department of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopaedics, Manav Rachna Dental College, MRIIRS Faridabad, Haryana, India; *Corresponding author
Sakshi Raina - E-mail: drsakshiraina3@gmail.com
Ashish Kumar Singh - E-mail: aksingh.sds@mrei.ac.in
Article Type
Research Article
Date
Received February 1, 2026; Revised February 28, 2026; Accepted February 28, 2026, Published February 28, 2026
Abstract
Orthodontic pain has emerged to be the most common side effect to be reported in the course of fixed appliance therapy, with prevalence of more than 70 per cent of patients and may undermine the adherence to treatment. Therefore, it is of interest to controlled pilot trial that tested the analgesic effect of therapeutic ultrasound on pain management in the first stage of alignment. Seven orthodontic patients (15-25 years old) with Class I malocclusion were randomly assigned to the ultrasound (1 MHz, 0.5 W/cm 2, pulsed mode) or sham treatment during 10 minutes on the second day after the placement of archwires. A visual analog scale (VAS) was used to measuring levels of pain before and after intervention. The ultrasound group recorded statistically significant difference of mean VAS scores of 5.8 + 1.2 to 2.1 + 0.9 (p<0.001), a 63.8% reduction in pain whereas the control group recorded a slight change of 5.6 + 1.1 to 5.2 + 1.0 (p=0.18). No side effects were noticed. Therapeutic ultrasound seems to be a safe, non-invasive and effective modality in the management of orthodontic pain and its use should be applied in larger studies.
Keywords
Orthodontic pain, therapeutic ultrasound, visual analog scale, non-pharmacological analgesia, pilot study
Citation
Raina & Singh, Bioinformation 22(2): 717-721 (2026)
Edited by
Hiroj Bagde
ISSN
0973-2063
Publisher
License
This is an Open Access article which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. This is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.
