The goal is to provide health care professionals, including dentists, with the best possible evidence for clinical decision making when deciding upon analgesics for acute post-surgical pain management, a double-blind, stratified randomized clinical trial will be conducted to test the hypothesis that a combination of over-the-counter non-opioid containing analgesics is at least as, if not more, effective (non-inferior) than the most commonly prescribed opioid analgesic. The impacted 3rd molar extraction model will be used due to the predictable severity of the post-operative pain and generalizability of results. This double-blind, prospective, stratified, randomized pragmatic clinical trial will use the impacted 3rd molar extraction pain model.
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Composite Pain 1
Timeframe: End of day of surgery (day 1) and when waking up the next morning (1 night after surgery)
Composite Pain 2
Timeframe: End of day of the second day after surgery (day 2) and when waking up the next morning (2nd night after surgery)
Composite Pain 3
Timeframe: End of day of the third day after surgery (day 3) and when waking up the next morning (3rd night after surgery)
Composite Pain All
Timeframe: End of first 7 days after surgery (days 1 thru 7) and when waking up the first 7 mornings (1st thru 7th nights after surgery)
Overall Satisfaction
Timeframe: At time of post-operative visit (day 9 +/- 5 days)
Pain Worst 1
Timeframe: End of day of surgery (day 1) and when waking up the next morning (1 night after surgery)
Pain Worst 2
Timeframe: End of day of after surgery (day 2) and when waking up the next morning (2nd night after surgery
Pain Worst 3
Timeframe: End of 2nd day of after surgery (day 3) and when waking up the next morning (3rd night after surgery)
Pain Worst All
Timeframe: End of first 7 days after surgery (days 1 thru 7) and when waking up the first 7 mornings (1st thru 7th nights after surgery)
Pain Average 1
Timeframe: End of day of surgery (day 1) and when waking up the next morning (1 night after surgery)
Pain Average 2
Timeframe: End of day of after surgery (day 2) and when waking up the next morning (2nd night after surgery)
Pain Average 3
Timeframe: End of 2nd day of after surgery (day 3) and when waking up the next morning (3rd night after surgery)
Pain Average All
Timeframe: End of first 7 days after surgery (days 1 thru 7) and when waking up the first 7 mornings (1st thru 7th nights after surgery)