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A retrospective review of a service to provide comprehensive dental care under general anesthesia
Author(s) -
Nunn June H.,
Davidson Gaynor,
Gordon Peter H.,
Storrs John
Publication year - 1995
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.1754-4505.1995.tb00489.x
Subject(s) - medicine , dental care , retrospective cohort study , service (business) , dentistry , family medicine , medical emergency , intensive care medicine , surgery , economy , economics
Day‐stay general anesthesia is indicated for a number of dental reasons, not least for those patients who are unable to accept routine dental care. Since 1979, the Dental Hospital of the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, has provided a weekly day‐stay service for the dental care of such patients. Reviews of this service were undertaken in 1983 and again in 1993. The latter study Investigated the provision of care for 265 patients and compared this with that for the 96 patients reviewed in the earlier study. This paper presents the results of the review and underlines the need for a very aggressive approach to preventive dental care for patients treated by this modality.