Abstract
We performed a clinicostatistical study of the liver transplanted patients who visited Department of Dentistry & Oral Surgery, Shinshu University School of Medicine during the period from June 1990 to September 2000. The subjects consisted of 66 patients (23 men and 43 women) who underwent liver transplantation at 1st Department of Surgery. The patients under 10 years old were the most frequently seen although the range in age from 1 to 69. Sixty percent of pretransplant patients were referred within one month before transplantation. After the transplantation, 57% of the patients visited our department later than 6 months after the transplantation.
Before transplantation, 70% of the patients visited us with the purpose of oral and dental screening, while after transplantation they came to us with various reasons. Tooth extraction, restorative treatment and TBI were the main treatment for the pretransplant patients and posttransplant patients received many kinds of treatment including tooth extraction, restorative treatment, prosthodontic treatment, and so on.
