Medical Problems Among Dental Patients at the School of Dentistry, The University of the West Indies

Abstract

This study ascertained demographic information and prevalence rates of medical problems among 571 new and consecutive dental patients attending the emergency clinic of the School of Dentistry, The University of the West Indies. Patients were interviewed by specially trained and calibrated dental students and interns. Various medical problems of patients were recorded in individual open-ended case sheets, maintaining their privacy and confidentiality. This information was then transcribed into a specially designed and pretested form. The data were entered into a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet and analyzed using the SPSS statistical package to obtain the prevalence rates of medical conditions, which were then cross-tabulated with gender, age, ethnicity, and other variables.

Medical status of patients presenting for treatment at an Australian dental institute: A cross-sectional study

“…Cardiovascular disease (37.9%), allergy (32.3%), mental health disorders (29.4%) musculoskeletal (23.0%) endocrine (22.4%) and respiratory disease (17.8%) constituted the most common conditions reported with the pattern of medication usage paralleling the diseases reported. This is in keeping with other studies [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16] and also re ects the most common chronic diseases in Australia [27]. Each of those conditions and associated medication use can not only contribute to the presentation of numerous intraoral pathosis but also affect the safe delivery of dental treatment.…”

“…In view of this, the aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of medical conditions and medication use among dental patients attending the general dental clinics for a routine dental examination at the Oral Health Centre of Western Australia (OHCWA), University of Western Australia. The prevalence estimates are documented and compared between males and females because differences in some of these are known to exist between genders [2,5,7,13,14]. It is anticipated that results of this study will shed light on the types of comorbidities of dental patients encountered by the dental students during their clinical studies, thus stimulating discussion around internal medicine content delivery, with the view to better prepare the graduates to deal with the medically compromised patients.…”

Medical status of patients presenting for treatment at an Australian dental institute: A cross-sectional study

“…Cardiovascular disease (37.9%), allergy (32.3%), mental health disorders (29.4%) musculoskeletal (23.0%) endocrine (22.4%) and respiratory disease (17.8%) constituted the most common conditions reported with the pattern of medication usage paralleling the diseases reported. This is in keeping with other studies [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16] and also re ects the most common chronic diseases in Australia [25]. Each of those conditions and associated medication use can not only contribute to the presentation of numerous intraoral pathosis but also affect the safe delivery of dental treatment.…”

Profile of Medically Compromised Children Attending the Pediatric Dentistry Department of the Casablanca Dental Consultation and Treatment Center

“…The ASA 2 score was obtained for 46.7% of children, ASA 3 for 20.6%, and ASA 4 for 32.8%. This classification allows the dentist to identify patients who can be treated safely during dental care, as well as those whose treatment involves a higher risk [7,6,13].…”

“…The evaluation of the medical profile of children consulting at university hospitals is of great importance at the global level. In fact, several studies have been conducted in this direction, most of which are focusing on the medical profile of adult patients [4,5,[7][8][9][10]. However, few studies have addressed the subject of the medical profile of children consulting for dental care [1,11,12].…”