DOI: 10.36347/sjds.2020.v07i01.005

Pages: 24-30

Surgical extraction of an impacted lower third molar involving bone removal doubtlessly causes some degree of pain, swelling, and trismus. Reducing or minimizing muscle spasm after third molar surgery would be a creditable goal, particularly if clinical healing were not compromised. Skeletal muscle relaxants are a heterogeneous group of medications used to treat two different types of underlying conditions: spasticity from upper motor neuron syndromes and muscular pain or spasms from peripheral musculoskeletal conditions including fibromyalgia, tension headaches, myofascial pain syndrome, and mechanical low back or neck pain. Thiocolchicoside and Tizanidine being centrally acting skeletal muscle relaxants are known to reduce the post-operative sequelae caused due to third molar impaction surgery. This study was conducted to compare the potent drug among the two after third molar surgery.