Table 2 Incidence of postoperative edema for each space according to the anesthetic methods and maxillary third molar extraction
N | Time to MRI (h, SD) | Postoperative edema (%) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Buccinator muscle | Supra-periosteum space | Buccal space | Parapharyngeal space | Lingual space | |||
Anesthetic method | |||||||
Local | 24 | 4.71 (9.41) | 62.96 | 70.37 | 37.93 | 62.07 | 21.43 |
General | 20 | 17.65 (20.98) | 79.17 | 78.57 | 57.14 | 46.15 | 32.14 |
P* | 0.519 | 0.728 | 0.760 | > 0.999 | > 0.999 | ||
Simultaneous extraction of maxillary third molar | |||||||
Only mandibular third molar | 9 | 7.56 (15.22) | 60.00 | 63.64 | 41.67 | 41.67 | 0.00 |
With maxillary third molar | 35 | 11.37 (17.38) | 73.17 | 77.27 | 48.89 | 58.14 | 34.09 |
P* | 0.298 | 0.669 | > 0.999 | 0.057 | 0.085 | ||