Clinical and statistical observations in the bedpatients during the past 10 years in Department of Dentistry and Oral Surgery, Nagoya National Hospital (1978-1987)

Abstract

Clinical and statistical observations were made of the first ten years' operations of the ward medical service started at the Department of the Dentistry and Oral Surgery in the National Nagoya Hospital.
The total number of patients was 519, 247 and 272 females. Male to female ratio was 47.6% to 52.4%. (1) Patient numbers catagorized by disease are as follows: inflammatory cases 196 (34.3%), cystic cases 96 (16.7%), neoplasms 60 (10.4%), trauma 59 (10.2%), malposition of the tooth socket 49 (8.5%), salivary gland cases 43 (7.5%), deformities 18 (3.1%), tooth extraction 13 (2.3)%, neural disease 5 (0.9%), and others 37 (6.4%). (2) Concerning age/disease distribution, approximately 34% of those under ten years old were deformity case. Older patients suffered predominately neoplastic disease. (3) Concerning age distribution the majority were in their twenties (16.8%), and then in decreasing order as follows: forties, thirties, fifties, sixties, 10-20's, and under tens. (4) Concerning distribution by regions, 96.3% of cases were from Aichi Prefecture; Nagoya City accourting for 66.3% of that figure. Accordingly, our institute has therefore fully served its designed function as a medical service institute of quality in the dental and oral surgical fields for the City of Nagoya.