1985 Volume 10 Issue 3 Pages 127-135
In recent years, the number of patient for whom it is too difficault to give dental treatments under local anestesia has been gradually increasing. For such patients, general anesthesia has been employed for various treatments. In this paper, we report the results of clinico-statistical observation of 2278 patients to whom dental treatments were given under general anesthesia at the dental hospital, School of Dentistry, Iwate Medical University, during the 15-year period between 1969 and 1983.
1. The number of patients receiving dental treatments under general anesthesia has been increasing every year, but there are only a few patients with a high risk.
2. As the agents of preanesthetic medication, atropine, hydroxyzine, and pethiolorfan have been most frequently employed.
3. As to the inductive means of general anesthesia, rapid induction was used in 90.1% of the patients who were given general anesthesia. The oraltracheal intubation method employed most frequently, followed by nasotracheal intubation.
4. The kinds of general anesthesia used in the dental treatments were GOF, m-NLA and GOE and the frequency of their use was 60.8%, 10.3% and 10.1%, respectively.
5. No patients developed serious complications during and/or after the application of general anesthesia.
