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KMID : 1144020070030010011
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Journal of Korean Association for Disability and Oral Health
2007 Volume.3 No. 1 p.11 ~ p.16
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A SURVEY OF GENERAL ANESTHESIA IN PEDIATRIC DENTAL CLINIC AT PUSAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY
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Kum Ji-Eun
Noh Hong-Seok
Kim Jae-Moon
Jeong Sung-Hee
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Abstract
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The use of general anesthesia as a special method of behavior management is necessary if certain handicapped or disabled child patient to receive dental treatment. This study was designed to report the results of 53 cases of complete oral rehabilitation under general anesthesia. The data were obtained from patients who were provided with dental treatment under general anesthesia for last 3years managed at the Dept. of pediatric dentistry in PNU Hospital. The distribution of age, gender, primary reason for general anesthesia, duration of dental procedure, number of treated tooth and periodic recall check-up were surveyed. In distribution of age, most(78%) were younger than 10 years and mean was 13.0 years. The reasons for providing general anesthesia were lack of cooperation due to various mental and physical handicapped situation(74%), congenital heart disease(13%), combined with medically compromised and behavior problem and others. The average duration of the treatments was 2 hours and 41 minutes and average duration of the anesthesia was 3 hours and 6minutes. The mean number of treated with restoration a children were 16.7 teeth. From the results, total dental rehabilitation under general anesthesia is a favorable modality to improve for disabled children’s oral condition
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KEYWORD
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General anesthesia, Disabled children, Total dental rehabilitation
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