Abstract
Recently, there has been an increasing trend in the number of occasions when patients with some diseases visit the dentist, and patients suffering from certain systemic disease are not particulaly care. The authors thought that the investigation of the current medication profiles of those patients might be a useful measure for a clear understanding of dental patients diseases. Thus for the 2-month period from November to December 1996. We asked new patients to our department about their conditions, and investigated what kinds of medecine patients of 50+ suffering from certain diseases were taking, from which the following results were obtained.
1) We investigated the medication of 31 50+ patients.
2) A single patient was found to be taking approximatory. 4types of medicine on average .
3) The most frequency was drugs for the circulatory system, then those for the central nervous system andthose for the gastrointestinal tract in order.
4) Investigation of medication seems to be a useful measure to understand the pathological conditions of dental patients with some diseases.
5) Positive utilization of medication reports seems to be useful medium for obtaining a better understanding of medication profiles.
