Avaliação dos efeitos da terapia fotodinâmica com azul de metileno, e laser de baixa intensidade, em diferentes intervalos de tempo, na cicatrização de feridas ósseas cirúrgicas em ratos Wistar – análise radiográfica e histopatológica

Abstract

Low Level Laser Therapy (LLLT) is a recognized noninvasive therapy for accelerating repair processes of both soft and hard tissues due to their biomodulating effects on cells and tissues. When there is an association of a light source of known wavelength with a low toxicity photosensitive dye, we also have the known Photodynamic Therapy (PDT), which is still little known about its action in the process of bone healing. The objective of this work was to evaluate the bone repair process in rats submitted to LLLT, associated or not with 0.01% methylene blue, using radiographic and histological evaluation. Bone defects were performed and distributed in five groups: untreated (control group); filled with methylene blue and untreated (methylene blue group); treated with laser 660nm (LLLT Group); filled with methylene blue and treated with laser 660nm (LLLT + PDT Group). Radiographs were performed on days 0, 7 and 14. Half of the animals, irradiated or not, were euthanized after seven days and the other half after 14 days, and the femurs were removed for histological analysis. The results suggest that radiographically there was no bone consolidation in any of the treated groups, but the bone defects of the LLLT + PDT group presented a higher degree of radiopacity; histologically, there was a greater increase in the area of bone neoformation in the LLLT and LLLT + PDT groups, especially in the two evaluated periods. We can therefore conclude that besides the association of PDT with LLLT was effective, the combination of the two techniques promoted the induction of osteogenesis in an early manner.