Avaliação do uso do laser de baixa intensidade e do ligth-emitting diode (LED) no comportamento de fibroblastos e na redução da incidência da mucosite bucal em crianças sob tratamento quimioterápico / Evaluation of the use of low-intensity laser and Light-Emitting Diode (LED) on the behavior of fibroblasts and in reducing the incidence of oral mucositis in children under chemotherapy

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2009

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The use of low-intensity laser and Light-Emitting Diode (LED) on the behavior of fibroblasts and in reducing the incidence of oral mucositis in children under chemotherapy were evaluated. The study was performed in two separate experiments. In the first moment, the viability of fibroblasts Balb/c 3T3 cultured under nutritional stress irradiated with red laser (660nm, 40mW), infrared laser (780nm, 50mW) and red LED (637 ± 15nm, 40mW) for 4 and 8 seconds was analyzed through the MTT and neutral red assays. The second experiment carried out was a double-blind randomized clinical trial aiming to assess the effectiveness of red laser (660nm, 40mW) and red LED (637 ± 15nm, 40mW) in reducing the incidence and severity of oral mucositis and related pain in children with cancer undergoing chemotherapy using the World Health Organization oral mucositis grading system and the Faces Pain Scale - Revised associated with a visual analogue scale. Statistical analysis was performed using the Kruskal-Wallis nonparametric test and ANOVA with a significance level of 5% (p = 0.05). It was observed with the MTT assay a trend of cell proliferation increase directly related to the irradiation time, however, not statistically significant. After 72 hours, the groups that showed higher cell proliferation were: infrared laser irradiated group, LED irradiated group, red laser irradiated group, positive control group and negative control group. By the neutral red assay, though, after 72 hours the group that showed higher cell proliferation was the positive control (grown under ideal nutritional conditions) followed by the group irradiated with infrared laser, the negative control group and groups irradiated with red laser and LED. By analyzing the results and considering the used parameters and phototherapy protocol, it is plausible to conclude that phototherapy with lowintensity laser and light emitting diode (LED) showed no toxicity at cellular level, even stimulating the proliferation of fibroblasts cultured under nutritional stress, especially in the group irradiated with infrared laser (780nm, 50mW). The incidence and severity of oral mucositis and associated pain, were very low in the groups irradiated with red laser (660nm, 40mW) and LED (637 ± 15nm, 40mW). There was no statistically significant difference between these groups, the coherence of light did not affect the outcome of phototherapy in vitro and in vivo.

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drug therapy in vitro stomatitis fototerapia estomatite phototherapy uimioterapia in vitro low-level laser therapy mucositis mucosite terapia a laser de baixa intensidade

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