Clinical Study of the Medically Compromised Outpatients over 65-year old in Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Kawamura Hospital

• Published in: Journal of Japanese Society of Dentistry for Medically Compromised Patient Vol. 9; no. 1; pp. 48 - 54
• Main Authors: Imai, Takao, Itou, Masaki, Iwaku, Fumihiko, Inoue, Takanori, Kubo, Kin-ya
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: Japanese Society of Dentistry for Medically Compromised Patient 2001
• Subjects: aged patient; medically compromised patient; oral surgery; statistics of patient
• ISSN: 0918-8150; 1884-667X
• DOI: 10.11255/jjmcp1992.9.48

There were 433 aged patients (over 65-year old), who were the outpatients at department of oral and maxilla-facial surgery and dentistry, Kawamura hospital from October, 1998 to May, 2000. Among 355 patients (82.0%) had systemic diseases of some kind of others. In the number of the diseage per patient, there were 45 patients (12.7%) with a single disease, 310 patients (87.3%) with two or more diseases, and average number of diseases per patient was 2.7. Among systemic diseases, cereberal infarction accounted for the largest fraction, followed by hypertension, gastroenteritis or stomach ulcer, depression, Parkinsonism, diabetes mellitus and myocardial ischemia. In the classification of diseases in the oral region, the majority were dentally related diseases, seen in 323 patients (74.6%) and 110 (25.4%) were oral surgery related diseases. The most frequent provided was restration and prosthetic treatment, followed by dental caries treatment and periodontal treatment.