ABSTRACT

Aim: To evaluate the referral pattern of children for general anesthesia. Background: Pain control is part of behavior management. If pain is not controlled, it will affect the standard of work a dentist can achieve. Dental treatment facilitated by general anaesthesia allows dentists to benefit from improved treatment conditions and provide a higher quality of care. Behavior problems and inability to cooperate were the main reasons for treatment under general anaesthesia and also patients that are too young to cooperate that have early childhood caries Materials and methods: A total of 90 subjects who underwent treatment under general anesthesia were chosen from the study in a total of 49,832 subjects screened for the data. All the case records and treatment records were obtained from the patient management software known as DIAS. The statistical analysis was performed using IBM SPSS (Version - 24). Results: The results showed that the most common reason for referral was patients' fear. Chi square tests were performed between age and gender to reason for referral for treatment under general anesthesia. Statistical significance was set at p <0.05. A non-significant correlation was observed in the results. Conclusion: Within the limitations of the study, the most common reason for referral to general anaesthesia is patients' fear followed by long term procedures such as full mouth rehabilitation. The most commonly affected gender is female and patients aged below 5 years. Keywords: General anesthesia; referral reason; retrospective study
Publication date: 01/08/2021

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https://doi.org/10.31032/IJBPAS/2021/10.8.1093