Abstract
Seven thousand nine hundred and eighty-eight patients who visited our department in the period from July 1986 to June 1990 were retrospectively analyzed.
1) There were 111 patients with neuromuscular diseases, an incidence of 1.4%. Among these, three patients (two with epilepsy, one with Parkinsonian syndrome) had jaw injuries. It suggested that injury was apt to occur in these patients.
2) There were 27 expectant and nursing mothers. More than a half of them visited during the period of the 5th month to the 7th month of pregnancy. But several patients visited during over 8 months pregnant. Most of them directly visited our hospital and complained of gum diseases or pericoronitis.
3) Two hundred fifty-eight patients, an incidence of 3.2%, had a history of allergy to drugs etc. Antibiotics were the most frequently encountered drugs, and then aspirinlike drugs followed. After our treatment 5 patients took allergic reaction to drugs which we used, and they all had had a hisotry of allergy to other drugs.
4) There were 49 patients (0.6%) who were suffered from collagen diseases and analogues. Systemic steroid therapy was used in 27 patients. Complications (infections and/or healing loss) were observed in 10 patients after our treatment.
5) Fifteen patients had a history of complications during dental anesthesia. And most of them were middle aged women.
