Abstract
We have treated a case of odontogenic infection disease of a patient with serious circulatory disease. A 76-year-old man noticed a swelling in the area from the right maxilla to the cheek on January 12, 2000 but left it. However, since he noticed that it drained in the oral cavity on January 19, 2000, he was referred to our department. He has been treated for hypertension since his thirties and was hospitalized for treatment of circulatory disease several times. We clinically diagnosed it as phlegmon in the buccal region due to a radicular cyst at 6_??_. He was hospitalized and antibiotics were given by intravenous drip. Since the cyst disappeared and the wound socket after tooth extraction recovered successfully after 48 days treatment, he was transferred to circulatory organ internal medicine in our hospital. Although it was difficult to control the general functioning of his body because of chronic cardiac failure, it was possible to control arrhythmia and he could survive without being affected by sepsis.
