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Evaluation of acupuncture for pain control after oral surgery: a placebo-controlled trial.

Lixing Lao, Stewart A. Bergman, Gayle Hamilton, Patricia Langenberg, Brian Berman

PubMed · 1999 · 163 citations · 24 references

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Abstract

Acupuncture is superior to the placebo in preventing postoperative dental pain; noninsertion placebo procedure is valid as a control.

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Judith A. Turner · JAMA · 1994 · 860 citations

A model to evaluate mild analgesics in oral surgery outpatients

Stephen A. Cooper, William T. Beaver · Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics · 1976 · 303 citations

Evaluation of the clinical effects of acupuncture

George Lewith, Charles Vincent · Pain Forum · 1995 · 245 citations

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Efficacy of Acupuncture on Osteoarthritic Pain

A Gaw, Lennig W. Chang, Lein-Chun Shaw · New England Journal of Medicine · 1975 · 217 citations

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Traditional Chinese acupuncture: a potentially useful antiemetic?

J. W. Dundee, W. N. Chestnutt, R. G. Ghaly et al. · BMJ · 1986 · 214 citations · Full text

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