Oral Health and Dental Management

Dental treatment of “untreatable” patients: Courage or science?

4^th Asia Pacific Congress & Expo on Dental and Oral Health

July 27-29, 2015 Brisbane, Australia

Adi A Garfunkel

Posters-Accepted Abstracts: Oral Health Dent Manag

Abstract:

The oral examination accompanied by X-rays and CT helps designing a treatment plan, periodontal, prosthetic and esthetic. Achieving these goals requires surgical interventions, implants, bone grafts etc. In order to perform this kind of treatments the patients are exposed to stressful situations, require the massive use of anesthetics, microbial complications, exaggerated bleeding, long periods of tissue repair and healing and eventual pains. The dentist ?courage? is a necessary element for these treatments but it has to be based on a solid scientific background. Cardiac patients become treatable when using sedation protocols. Hypertensive patients become treatable with local anesthetics containing adrenalin if monitorized. Anticoagulated patients will not bleed if blood tests are performed previously and antifibrinolytic medications are employed. Multiple medications used for complex patients present an enormous challenge to our profession. The present conference intends to describe the modern approach to these problems with the idea of including this continuously growing group of patients in the dental clinics for the benefit of all.