Abstract
There were 3, 300 outpatients who visited 1st department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, school of dentistry, Aichi-Gakuin University during a period of one year from April 1994 to March 1995. The medical compromised patients were 621 (18.8%).
They were classified to 252 males and 369 females, and the ratio of compromised patients were 19.0% and 18.7% respectively.
The average age of the medically compromised patients was 51.3 year old, while that of all subjects was 35.4 year old.
Among the underlying deseases, 265 patients (42.7%) had cardiovascular deseases, that were most common deseases. Next followed 140 patients (22.5%) had digestive tract desease and 93 patients (15.0%) had metabolic desease, etc. 124 patients had two or more underlying deseases, they were 20% in the all medically compromised patients.
Among the desease in our area, 305 patients (49.1%) had inflamatory disorders, next followed 63 patients (10.1%) had tempromandibular disorders and 52 patients (8.4%) had tooth deseases, etc.
As the treatment in our hospital, 402 patients (64.7%) recieved invasive treatment and 185 patients (29.8%) recieved noninvasive treatment, etc.
