We have performed dental treatment on non c o operative chldren under general anesthesia since April 1976 at the Hoshino Dental Clinic in Shibuya, Tokyo.15 1 cases had been treated as of March 1981.
The understanding and eva l u ation by the parent of the pedodontic treatment under general anesthesia at the dental office were also investigated by sending out quest ionaires.
Our patients were from 1 to 13 years of age.88.1% of them were dentalphobic patients and of the remainder,11.9% were mildly mentally handicapped p atients.
All of them were inducted with nitrous oxide-oxygen-halothane an e s thesia and maintained by nasal insufflation. The average time spent for dental treatment was 83minutes and the average number of teeth treated in each case was 13.3. On th e average, anesthesic time was 107 minutes and patients were able to be allowed to return home 172 minutes fater awakening.
We sent out questionaires to 136 guardians whose children had undergone intensive dental treatment and received 120 replies (88.2%).
The results of our questionaires were as fo l l ows:
1) Most of the pediatric patients had been refused t reatment at several dental clinics and referred to our clinic.
2) The majority of th e parents did not know of dental treatment performed under general anesthesia.
3) After treatment, the guardians told us that they were glad to take odvantage of general anesthesia for their children and would recommend it to others.
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