CO-MORBIDITIES RELATED TO DENTAL EXTRACTIONS

Abstract

In the department of oral and maxillofacial surgery at the Institute of Dentistry (LUMHS) Jamshoro cross sectional survey was done in order to detect the occurrence of comorbidities in patients older than 30 years of age as this age group being more vulnerable to dental extraction led by those comorbidities. During the period of eight months from April 2016 to November 2016 a total of 2520 patients visited the oral surgery OPD of (LUMHS). In this study the medical and drug history of 768 patients was recorded on predesigned history sheets to find out various medical problems including hypertension, diabetes mellitus, hepatitis, compromised cardiac function and asthma. Among sample of 768, 359(46.8%) were males and 409 (53.2%) were females. Age ranged between 30 to 80 years. Out of these 54% were in 4th and 6th decade of life. Comorbidities were found to be among 246 (32%) of the patients.

In this study, the most widespread co morbidity was hypertension accounting for 113/768 (14.7%) patients followed by diabetes mellitus 63/768 (8.20%) It is a common observation that patients having deteriorating diseases also present simultaneously other co morbid conditions. Like insomnia and anxiety are associated with depression and dental treatment phobias and hypertension are usually found among diabetics as co morbidities.