Effect of Musical Therapy on Salivary Cortisol Levels and Oral Health Related Quality of Life in Patients with Fixed Prosthesis- A Research Protocol of Randomised Controlled Trial

Introduction: Tooth loss exerts a significant psychological impact on adult patients. Also, it affects the psychological aspect of patient’s behaviour, which can have a dynamic effect on an individual’s mind. Many patients feel anxious while facing dental clinics or while getting treated. These stressful situations can cause alterations in neuro hormonal mechanism and can induce cardiovascular events. If the patient’s mind is distracted to listen to music during treatment processes, his or her anxiety levels can be lowered, resulting in maximum compliance.

Need of the study: The need of the research is to determine impact of musical therapy on salivary cortisole level. As different therapy such as musical therapy, has achieved significant among alternative therapies as it is not invasive and very helpful to decrease the unfavourable effect of strength on patients mind.

Aim: To determine the effect of musical therapy on salivary cortisol levels and Oral Health Related Quality of Life (OHRQoL) in patients under prosthetic rehabilitation with fixed prosthesis.

Materials and Methods: This randomised controlled trial will be conducted at Sharad Pawar Dental College and Hospital, Sawangi(M), Wardha on 30 patients undergoing fixed prosthetic rehabilitation. Salivary cortisol levels will be checked in both experimental group and control group, undergoing prosthetic rehabilitation with fixed partial denture. To analyse OHRQoL before and after treatment in both groups. Oral Health Impact Profile (OHIP) will be used, which includes a questionnaire. Following the assessment, correlation of OHRQoL of both groups and their salivary cortisol levels before and after treatment will be done.