Abstract
There were 5, 487 patients, who first visited Department of Oral and Maxillofacial. Surgery, Tokyo Women's Medical College during a period of one year from January to December 1990. Among them, 2, 467 patients (45.0%) had systemic diseases of some kind or the other.
There were 1, 214 male and 1, 253 female patients, and these were 47.9% and 43.1% of the patients of the first visit respectively. Average age of the medically compromised patients was 48.0 years, while that of normal healthy subjects was 34.8 years. In age groups, there were more patients of the fifties and sixties while there were few in the teens and twenties. The ratio of the medically compromised patients to the subjects who visited our department increased with their age and amounted to 76.9% in the patients of the seventies. In the number of the diseases per medically compromised patient, there were 1, 953 patients (79.2%) with a single disease, 514 patients (20.8%) with two or more diseases, and average number of diseases per patient was 1.26.
In the classification by types of diseases, the patients with circulatory diseases were overwhlemingly many, accounting for about 1/3 of all. Next followed endocrine and metabolic diseases, neoplasm and digestive tract dieseases, urological diseases, mental disorder, respiratory diseases, etc.
