Post-operative pain in tonsillectomy: bipolar electrodissection technique vs dissection ligation technique. A...

The two commonly employed methods for tonsillectomy at present are electrodissection and ligature dissection. This study was carried out on 70 patients as a randomized prospective double blind trial to compare the post-operative morbidity of these methods with special reference to pain. The post-operative pain appears to be much less for the ligation dissection technique compared to the electrodissection method except during the first post-operative day. Irrespective of the technique employed for tonsillectomy, the worst pain was experienced on the fifth and sixth post-operative day by almost all of the patients.