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Effect of medical status on dental procedure time
Author(s) -
Hayes Catherine,
Sonis Stephen T.
Publication year - 1992
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.1754-4505.1992.tb00414.x
Subject(s) - medicine , dentistry
The purpose of this study was to determine if treatment of medically compromised patients requires more time than that of healthy patients. The time taken to complete diagnostic and manipulative procedures was studied and compared for both groups. After an evaluation of 160 procedures on 108 patients, it was determined that no differences existed In the time taken to complete technical procedures between the two groups. However, the diagnostic and evaluation phase for moderately to severely compromised patients required twice as much time as that of healthy individuals.