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Journal of IMAB - Annual Proceeding (Scientific Papers)
Publisher: Peytchinski, Gospodin Iliev
ISSN: 1312-773X (Online)
Issue: 2009, Volume 15, book 2
Subject Collection: Medicine
Page:122-124
DOI: 10.5272/jimab.1522009_122
Online date: March 26, 2010,

THE CARDIOVASCULAR PATIENT - CHALLENGE OR PROBLEM FOR THE DOCTOR OF DENTAL MEDICINE?
Hristo Daskalov*, L. Vladimirova-Kitova**, Hristina Lalabonova*.
*Department of Oral surgery, Faculty of Dental Medicine, **Department of Cardiology, Faculty of Medicine, Medical University, Plovdiv, Bulgaria

ABSTRACT:
The pain is a main and strictly subjective criterion for the patients’ assessment of the quality of treatment. The  anesthesia is the basic part from the contemporary standards for good dental practice.
The aim of the investigation is to establish how far the risk patient with cardiovascular disorders, receives an adequate anesthesia in the dental treatment
Object of the study are 276 interviewed patients from the Clinic of Cardiology - St. Georgy University Hospital - Plovdiv, The Department of Cardiology - MBAL - Pazardjik, and private cardiological practices in Plovdiv, Smoljan and Pazardjik.
For that purpose  a questionnaire was prepared. It comprises questions about retrospective revision  of previous dental interventions. The questions are orientated to specify the use of an anesthesia in the dental treatment, how far effective is it, if there is a refusal on the dentist part.
Conclusion: It was established, that the doctors of dental medicine avoid the use of   anesthesia in the cardiovascular patients

Key words: cardiovascular diseases, risk patients, complications, anesthesia.

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