[Preoperative potentiation of immune defenses or postoperative antibiotic therapy?]

A clinical study was conducted during the postoperative period in adolescents to compare efficacy of two regimens by objective (temperature, edema) and subjective (pain) criteria. half had received preoperative immunotherapy and the other half conventional postoperative antibiotic treatment. Operations were germectomy of a wisdom tooth and maxillary osteotomy. Results were submitted to statistical analysis and data obtained from the objective and particularly subjective parameters studied led to the routine introduction of preoperative immunotherapy for these operations.