Vitamin C and Reduced Facial Swelling

• Vitamin C and postoperative outcomes following mandibular third molar extraction: a randomized split-mouth study.

  • 2026-05
  • RCT
  • Oral surgery, oral medicine, oral pathology and oral radiology 141(5)
  • • Merve Demirel
    • Alper Aktas
    • Mevlüde Kizil
    • Nadir Yalcin

  • PubMed: 41309404
  • DOI: 10.1016/j.oooo.2025.10.011

  2 Insights on

  • Reduced Facial Swelling

  • High evidence
  • Adults

  Facial swelling was significantly reduced on day 2 in the vitamin C group across all measurements.

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Moderate

  Significant

  Yes