3. Results
pain
ADVERSE EFFECTS
A total of 100 patients were initially evaluated for eligibility. Twelve patients were excluded from the study as they did not meet the inclusion criteria. However, eight of the patients refused to participate in the study. Hence, a total of eighty patients were included in the study (The mean age of the patients was 30 ± 2.34 years, and no statistically significant differences in baseline characteristics (age and gender) were observed between the groups (The Tukey’s HSD test for multiple comparisons revealed that at 4 hrs there was a significant difference in pain scores of Group 3 and Group 2, and at 48 hrs and 72 hrs there was a significant difference in the pain score of Group 3 when compared with other groups. Lastly, at 96 hrs, there was significant difference in the pain scores of Group 3 in comparison with the Group 2 and Group 4. The Dunnett’s test showed a significant difference in the pain score of Control group (Group 4) and Tri-antibiotic group (Group 3) at 48 hrs, 72 hrs and 96 hrs (The Bartlett’s test was utilized to check the homogeneity of variance. It was found from the results that variance was homogenous for the preoperative, 48 hrs and 72 hrs pain scores. Conversely, non-homogenous variance was noted for the other time periods., i.e., 4 hrs and 96 hrs. Moreover, no adverse effects were reported by the patients in relation to medicaments that were used in this study.