Medical profile of patients referred to an Australian postgraduate oral surgery clinic

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Ngu, Anthony Chu Seng
Arora, Sitanshu
Reher, Peter
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2023
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Background and Objectives: Thorough knowledge of a patient's medical history and medications is necessary for providing safe oral surgery care, and may be considered a form of risk management. This study investigated the prevalence of medical conditions and medication types in patients referred to an Australian postgraduate oral surgery clinic over 2 years.Materials and Methods: A retrospective cross-sectional study of the clinical records of 233 randomized patients referred to the Griffith University (Queensland, Australia) postgraduate oral surgery clinic in 2018 and 2019 was performed. Medical conditions and medications were counted and categorized, and descriptive statistics were generated. Results: In all, 133 patients (57%) had at least one medical condition. 58% of them (77) had two or more categories of medical conditions, representing nearly a third (33.0%) of all sampled patients. The most prevalent category of medical conditions was psychiatric (25.3%), followed closely by cardiovascular (24.5%) diseases. Cardiovascular medications were the most prevalent, comprising 23.6% of all medications recorded, followed by psychotropics (18.3%). Conclusion: Over half of patients referred to the postgraduate oral surgery clinic had at least one systemic medical condition. Nearly a third of patients referred had at least two distinct systemic medical conditions. With an ageing population and the accompanying rise in multimorbidity globally, dental school curricula must adapt to prepare students to meet these challenges in their careers.

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Clinical and Experimental Dental Research

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© 2023 The Authors. Clinical and Experimental Dental Research published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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Public health

Dentistry

clinical pharmacology

dental education

multimorbidity

oral surgery

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Ngu, ACS; Arora, S; Reher, P, Medical profile of patients referred to an Australian postgraduate oral surgery clinic, Clinical and Experimental Dental Research, 2023

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