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Pretreatment for the cardiovascularly compromised geriatric dental patient: Geriatric Dentistry
Author(s) -
MULLIGAN ROSEANN
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
special care in dentistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.328
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1754-4505
pISSN - 0275-1879
DOI - 10.1111/j.1754-4505.1985.tb00541.x
Subject(s) - medicine , disease , regimen , compliance (psychology) , geriatric dentistry , intensive care medicine , geriatrics , polypharmacy , dental care , oral and maxillofacial pathology , dentistry , oral health , psychiatry , psychology , social psychology
Summary As more elderly patients seek dental care, dentists will increasingly be confronted with growing numbers of ill patients on multiple medication regimes. Because cardiovascular disease is the largest disease entity in this age group and the greatest cause of morbidity and mortality, this paper has focused on the major types of cardiovascular disease, and the cardiac medications routinely prescribed. Possible interactions with dental procedures or medications and alternative dental treatments and medications are discussed. The need for the dentist to continually assess the stability of the patient's health and compliance with his or her prescribed treatment regimen is stressed, because through an awareness of the patient's medical status and level of compliance the dentist can determine a course of dental treatment that will not jeopardize the geriatric patient's already compromised cardiovascular health.