Prevalence of Medically Compromised Children Among Dental Patients: A 10-Year Retrospective Study

Aim:Medical conditions can affect oral health status as well as directly affecting dental treatment planning and patient management. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the prevalence of various medical conditions of those children in a community-based dental hospital.Materials and Methods:In t...

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Main Authors: Pınar Demir, Şefika Nur Özden
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Language:English
Published: Galenos Yayinevi 2021-12-01
Series:Journal of Pediatric Research
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Online Access: http://jpedres.org/archives/archive-detail/article-preview/prevalence-of-medically-compromised-children-among/49643
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description Aim:Medical conditions can affect oral health status as well as directly affecting dental treatment planning and patient management. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the prevalence of various medical conditions of those children in a community-based dental hospital.Materials and Methods:In this study, the anamnesis forms of 30,161 children aged 0-15 who were referred to a university dental hospital from a defined geographical area in southeastern Turkey between 2010 and 2020 were evaluated. Patients who had a medical risk and chronic/systemic/genetic diseases were included in this study. Those medical records for acute conditions, cooperation problems and isolated tooth anomalies not associated with any syndrome or genetic disease were excluded from this study.Results:1,619 (5.36%) of the patients included in the study had at least one systemic disease. According to the medical conditions which were examined and categorized, the most common disease group was neurological disorders (17.1%) and the most common disease was epilepsy (11.7%). It was followed by Congenital/chromosomal malformations (14.8%), while autism was the most common in this group with a rate of 36.7%.Conclusion:Obtaining a detailed medical history of every patient who is referred to the dental clinic is very significant in terms of treatment planning, non-routine required protocols and complications. Dentists and pediatricians should evaluate more frequently and more rigidly, using a multidisciplinary approach, children with systemic diseases whose oral and dental health is at greater risk as a result of their medical condition.
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spelling doaj.art-654e46c6563243c0b116374ac34dc8a32023-02-15T16:16:28ZengGalenos YayineviJournal of Pediatric Research2147-94452587-24782021-12-018446246810.4274/jpr.galenos.2021.9247713049054Prevalence of Medically Compromised Children Among Dental Patients: A 10-Year Retrospective StudyPınar Demir0Şefika Nur Özden1 İnönü University Faculty of Dentistry, Department of Pediatric Dentistry, Malatya, Turkey İnönü University Faculty of Dentistry, Department of Pediatric Dentistry, Malatya, Turkey Aim:Medical conditions can affect oral health status as well as directly affecting dental treatment planning and patient management. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the prevalence of various medical conditions of those children in a community-based dental hospital.Materials and Methods:In this study, the anamnesis forms of 30,161 children aged 0-15 who were referred to a university dental hospital from a defined geographical area in southeastern Turkey between 2010 and 2020 were evaluated. Patients who had a medical risk and chronic/systemic/genetic diseases were included in this study. Those medical records for acute conditions, cooperation problems and isolated tooth anomalies not associated with any syndrome or genetic disease were excluded from this study.Results:1,619 (5.36%) of the patients included in the study had at least one systemic disease. According to the medical conditions which were examined and categorized, the most common disease group was neurological disorders (17.1%) and the most common disease was epilepsy (11.7%). It was followed by Congenital/chromosomal malformations (14.8%), while autism was the most common in this group with a rate of 36.7%.Conclusion:Obtaining a detailed medical history of every patient who is referred to the dental clinic is very significant in terms of treatment planning, non-routine required protocols and complications. Dentists and pediatricians should evaluate more frequently and more rigidly, using a multidisciplinary approach, children with systemic diseases whose oral and dental health is at greater risk as a result of their medical condition. http://jpedres.org/archives/archive-detail/article-preview/prevalence-of-medically-compromised-children-among/49643 chronic diseasesmedical recordspediatric dentistrymedically compromised childrenprevalence
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Prevalence of Medically Compromised Children Among Dental Patients: A 10-Year Retrospective Study
Journal of Pediatric Research
chronic diseases
medical records
pediatric dentistry
medically compromised children
prevalence
title Prevalence of Medically Compromised Children Among Dental Patients: A 10-Year Retrospective Study
title_full Prevalence of Medically Compromised Children Among Dental Patients: A 10-Year Retrospective Study
title_fullStr Prevalence of Medically Compromised Children Among Dental Patients: A 10-Year Retrospective Study
title_full_unstemmed Prevalence of Medically Compromised Children Among Dental Patients: A 10-Year Retrospective Study
title_short Prevalence of Medically Compromised Children Among Dental Patients: A 10-Year Retrospective Study
title_sort prevalence of medically compromised children among dental patients a 10 year retrospective study
topic chronic diseases
medical records
pediatric dentistry
medically compromised children
prevalence
url http://jpedres.org/archives/archive-detail/article-preview/prevalence-of-medically-compromised-children-among/49643
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