COMORBIDITIES IN ORAL & MAXILLOFACIAL SURGERY PATIENTS: A HOSPITAL BASED STUDY
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.33279/jkcd.v3i2.483Keywords:
Maxillofacial Surgery, Co-morbidities, Systemic diseaseAbstract
Objective: To provide local data about the comorbidities present among patients requesting dental treatment so that the patients’ medical conditions be assessed properly and dental management modified accordingly to avoid the occurrence of medical emergencies in dental practice.
Materials and Methods: A total of 100 patients reporting to the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery were included in this study regardless of age and gender. A written permission from the institutional research ethical committee will be obtained. After taking consent, a detailed history will be taken and patient examined regarding the systemic conditions other than maxillofacial diseases such as cardiovascular, endocrine, respiratory, hematologic, neurological, infectious, skeletal, gastrointestinal, renal and other remarkable diseases. Information so collected on a specially designed proforma will be analysed using SPSS version 17.
Results:The most common chief complaint reported by the patients was the need for extraction (45%) and pathologies (19%). Eighty five present patients were having multiple co morbid diseases while 15% were having single disease. The most frequently encountered disease categories in isolation were diabetes mellitus and Hepatitis C infections (20% each). Combination co morbidities comprised 15% of the total sample size. Diabetes mellitus and Hypertension were the most common combined co-morbidities (33.3%).
Conclusion: The results of this study confirm that there is significant prevalence of patients with medical conditions requesting dental treatment. This is an important issue regarding patient health care. In dentistry, the curriculum may require modification towards a more medically oriented dental education. Knowing about the interplay between oral and systemic diseases and medications will help the dental practitioners to avoid or resolve the life-threatening situations that may occur during dental treatment.
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