Retrospective analysis of characteristics of patients presenting to the emergency room following dental treatment

Description

Ji-Young Hwang, Jihye Ryu, Chiho Moon, and Jae-Yeol Lee review three years of emergency visits that followed dental work at one Korean hospital. Of 4,241 emergency patients, 796 came in because of a dental procedure. The team sorted them into bleeding, inflammation, and other complications, then read the records for the treatment involved, the patients' other conditions, and what the emergency team had to do.

Bleeding dominated, at 539 patients, followed by inflammation at 219 and other problems at 38. Bleeding showed no tie to body-wide disease, blood thinners, or the kind of dental work done, and simple pressure stopped it in 36.2 percent of cases. Inflammation led to drainage surgery in 29 percent and to hospital admission in 53 percent. Diabetes, lower back teeth, and age over 30 raised the admission odds.

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Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC11701507