The outpatients at the Second Department of Maxillofacial and Oral Surgery Nagasaki University Dental School Hospital during the four years from April, 1984 to March, 1988 were analyzed statistically.
The total number of the patients was 3608. 38 % of them were eighteen to thirty nine years of age and the number of the patients over sixty years old have tended to increase.
38.3 % of all patients were refered to our Department by dental practitioners.
77.3 % of the patients over sixty years old showed to have general disease, 42 % of them had cardiovascular disease.
