RESUMEN
This study was undertaken to evaluate the effect of methylprednisolone on postoperative facial edema. Subjects were dental outpatients undergoing enucleation of periapical pathologic tissues related to one of the maxillary central incisors under local anesthesia. An hour before surgery, the experimental group [10 patients] received 40 mg methylprednisolone intramuscular and the control group [10 patients] received normal saline solution intramuscular. For each patient, preoperative and postoperative lateral cephalometric radiographs were taken. A new method of measurement of postoperative edema was used. The collected data revealed that methylprednisolone significantly reduced postoperative facial edema and the new method of edema measurement is simple and accurate