Abstract
There were 1, 280 patients, who were the inpatients at Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Tokyo Women's Medical Collage from 1986 to 1991. Among 511 patients (39.9%) had systemic diseases of some kind or others.
The average age of the medically compromised patients was 49.1 years. The ratio of the medically compromised patients increased with their age and amounted 88.6% in the patients of the seventies.
In a classification by type of diseases, the patients with circulatorydiseas-es were overwhelmingly many, accounting for about a half of all. Next followedendocrine and metabolic diseases, digestive tract diseases, etc.
Among the 511 patients, 129 (25.2%) were caries and periodontitis, 105 (20.5%) were tumors, 97 (19.0%) were traumas, 77 (15.1%) were inflammatory disorders, 45 (8.8%) were cysts, and 58 (11.4%) were others.
The number of operations were 425, and 204 (48.0%) of them were performed under general anesthesia and 221 (52.0%) were under local anesthesia.
