Bertacco M, Soyeux O, Durand R et al. Effect of personalized musical intervention on burden of care in dental implant surgery: a pilot randomized controlled trial. J Dent 2022; DOI: 10.1016/j.jdent.2022.104091. Online ahead of print.

Personalised music intervention could be effective in decreasing patients' burden of care during dental implant surgery.

This randomised controlled trial explored the effect of a personalised musical intervention on the burden of care during dental implant placements. Twenty-four dental implant surgery patients were included. A personalised music intervention or an audiobook control condition was administered. Burden of care (a composite outcome including self-reported anxiety, pain, and dissatisfaction), expected pain prior to surgery, pre- and post-surgery effect, memory of pain felt during surgery, and participants' emotional judgments of the music and audiobook listening were assessed. The personalised music intervention significantly reduced the burden of care for dental implant surgery. Both groups reported a positive effect after surgery, but the music group felt significantly better. The pain remembered after seven post-operative days was also significantly lower in the music group. Participants judged the music listened to during surgery as more relaxing and pleasant than the audiobook.