Introduction:

dental clinics are daily visited by patients with stomatological emergencies, in this sense, an exhaustive analysis on this subject is indispensable for a better control and control of them.

Objective:

to describe the clinical and therapeutic characteristics of patients with stomatological emergencies of dental origin seen in the emergency clinic of the Policlínico Docente Norte "Diego del Rosario" of the municipality of Morón, Ciego de Avila province.

Methods: an observational, descriptive, cross-sectional study was carried out on patients seen in the aforementioned institution, during the period from January 2021 to January 2022. We worked with the totality of the universe, constituted by 122 patients. Descriptive statistics were used. Absolute and relative percentage frequencies were used to summarize the information.

Results:

there was a predominance of female sex (59,0 %) and of the 35-59 years age group (55,7 %). Pain was reported in 45,9 % of the patients. Pulpal and periapical processes were present in 74 (52,5%) of the cases. It was observed that pulp sedation was the therapeutic treatment of choice, performed in 57 emergencies representing 40,4 %.

Conclusions:

Pulpal and periapical processes were identified as the most predominant type of stomatological emergency, of which acute dentoalveolar abscess was present in most patients. Pulp sedation was the therapeutic treatment of choice

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