Introduction:

To carry out a dentist treatment without committing the systemic state has been the aim of several of studies. Among them is the determination of the medical risk of patients attending the dental consultation according to ASA classification, which has not been reported in Cuba.

Objective:

To identify the medical history and to determine the ASA medical risk of patients in the dental consultation.

Material and Method:

The CROMEC questionnaire was applied to 30 patients that attended for the first time the consultation. Age, sex, medical history and medications were taken into account to finally determine the ASA classification of the patients.

Results:

The 60 year-old or more group prevailed with 53,3%, inside this group the feminine sex with 60%. 63,3% of the studied patients had medical history, mainly hypertension with 56,6% followed by diabetes mellitus with 36,6%. The most frequently used medications were the antihypertensive ones with 32% followed by those used by diabetics with 20%. 43,3% of the patients were included in the classification ASA II.

Conclusions:

More than half of the studied patients presented medical history; being the most frequent arterial hypertension and diabetes mellitus in correspondence with the biggest use of antihypertensive and diabetes mellitus medications. Most of the patients corresponded to the classification ASA II, light systemic illness, indicating dental treatment with modifications.

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