Abstract

LEON MONTANO, Virgilio et al. Dental alveolitis frequency and factors characterizing it. Rev.Med.Electrón. [online]. 2016, vol.38, n.1, pp. 1-13. ISSN 1684-1824.

Background: Dental alveolitis is the most frequent dental post-removal complication, characterized by post-surgery pain in the alveolus, seriously increasing in the first and third day: this symptom makes the patient immediately visit the stomatologic service. Aim: describing dental alveolitis frequency and factors characterizing it in the teaching Policlinic Enrique de los Angeles Betancourt Nenínger. Materials and Methods: a cross-sectional, observational, descriptive study was carried out in the before mentioned policlinic, from September 2012 to September 2013, with 140 patients showing this affection after removal. Information was collected and sociodemographic variables of alveolitis risk and characterization were processed. Outcomes: the 35-59 years age group represented 5.72 %, and the 14-19 years one, 0 % from the total of the removals carried out; the female gender, 60 %; mandibular location, 51.4 %. The dental group molars represented 38.6 %; without alveolar trauma, 71.42 %, but 82.85 of the patients were smokers, and 60 % had not treatment with antibiotics. Conclusions: it was concluded that the most affected age group was the one enclosing people from medium age to elder years, affecting more women, mandibular location and molars. The alveolar trauma is less frequent, but smoking habit is related with most of the affected people, and the treatment with antibiotics does not have influence in the alveolitis appearance or not.

Keywords : dental removal; dental alveolitis; post dental removal complications.

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