Dental drugs and anaphylactic reactions

Gill, Claire J.; Michaelides, Paul L.

doi:10.1016/0030-4220(80)90327-8

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“…This history of allergy is relatively high compared to studies done by Walters (9) and Gill et al (10), which occurred only in 0.02% of patients prescribed with penicillin. This was probably because our data on allergies are due to several antibiotics rather than penicillin alone.…”

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Clinical Patterns Of Oro-facial Infections

Rahman

Hamimah

Bunyarit

2005

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were included in this retrospective study. The list of patients were taken from record of patients attendance. The patients' case notes were retrieved and reviewed using specially designed proforma. The data on patients' demography, clinical presentation, source and site of infection and treatment were collected. Patients with inadequate information and unavailable case notes were excluded from this study. RESULTSA total of 409 patients were included in this study. There were 258 (63.1%) males and 151 (36.9%) females. The male to female ratio was 1.7:1.The incidence of oro-facial infections was highest in the 20-29 year age-group. This age group accounted for about 33% of the total cases. This was followed by the 30-39 year age group, which accounted for 20.1% of total cases ( ABSTRACTThe aim of this retrospective study was to study the clinical patterns of oro-facial infections presented and their management (or trends of management) at the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Dental Faculty, University of Malaya. These included the predisposing factors, presentations and management. This study reviewed the oro-facial infection cases over 15 years. The data was obtained from case note reviews of patients using specially designed proforma. A total number of 409 samples were included in this study. Majority of the patients were generally healthy with about 6.6% having diabetes mellitus. The common presentations were pain (47.4%), pus discharges (16.9%) and limitation of mouth opening (12.5%). The major site was in the submandibular region (18.9%) followed by cheek (13.2%). Most of the infections were from odontogenic source (63.2%). Other sources includes cysts (15.4%) and tumours (6.7%). Incision and drainage were the treatment of choice performed on 57.55% of patients. Monoantimicrobial therapy was the treatment instituted in 20.8% of cases.

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