Abstract
Our society is becoming an aging society and it is estimated that the rate of patients with systemic diseases will increase. In light of this situation, it is necessary to know the actual situation and specifics of in-patients with systemic diseases to provide prompt and appropriate treatment to them. We analyzed past history of in-patients who we treated in the Department of Dentistry and Oral Surgery, Ishikawa Prefectural Central Hospital, and the following is the outline of our study.
The number of inpatients treated in our department over the past two years (January 1999 to December 2000) was 478 and, out of this group, 304 had anamnesis (63.6%) with the average age of the patients being 52.5 years old. The average number of diseases per patient was 2.0. Regarding the diseases treated in departments other than ours at the hospital, the number of diseases affecting circulatory organs was the largest, with diseases affecting digestive organs and neoplasm following.
As for diseases treated in our department, diseases causing cysts were the largest, with inflammatory diseases and injuries following.
