Abstract
With the recent progress in dialysis, the 10-year-survival rate of patients undergoing chronic hemodialysis has now exceeded 70%. Consequently, the opportunities for these patients to contract diseases requiring surgical treatmemt are on the rise. It is no longer rare that patients with kidney failure visit dental care facilities and it is necessary to treat them with due consideration given to their unique renal physiopathology.
In general, dialysis patients suffer from severely compromised renal functions, hemorrhagic tendencies, delayed wound healing, and easy susceptibility to infections. Thus prior to surgical treatment, they require through examinations, selection of the most suitable surgical procedure, and appropriate pie-, peri-, and post-operative management. Recently, we had opportunities to perform oral surgery on two dialysis patients who had been referred to us by other hospitals. We introduce an outline of the cases and discuss the therapeutic issues on stomatognathic diseases.
