Abstract
Recently, the number of medically compromised patients (MCP) is increasing in dental clinic. When MCP patients are practiced of dental treatments, it is necessary to consider the effect of general condition. This article was described the accommodation of MCP in 5 general private practices during 2 years. 733 MCP that were selected from 4, 884 patients were examined into classification of systemic medically disease and dental treatment with consultation for medicine. The results as follows
1) The ratio of medically compromised patients was 15.0%.
2) The most common medically disease was circulatory organ disease (356), diabetes mellitus (77), hepatic disease (48), cerebrivascular disease (33), hemapathy (8), etc.
3) MCP were treated of scaling (369), prosthodontic treatment (208), restoration (193), pulp extraction (180), denture (173), extraction (148), periodontal surgery (46), etc.
4) 173 cases were consulted for medicine, and the ratio was 23.6%.
Above mentioned, MCP were practiced various dental treatment in general practice. Until now, we did not encountered severe complications. However we should care for general condition with MCP, and must take knowledge and experience for MCP. So, training for general practice will be becoming most important work in dentistry. Therefore, dentist of oral and maxillofacial surgery who had expert knowledge of MCP dentistry should cooperated the training.
