ANALYSIS OF PAIN PERCEPTION OF ELDERLY PATIENTS WITH DIFFERENT LEVELS OF ANXIETY DURING A SURGICAL DENTAL APPOINTMENT
Abstract
Elderly patients constitute a significant proportion of the population. All they need skilled dental care.
Elderly patients constitute a significant proportion of the population. All at some point need skilled
dental care. However, a significant proportion of patients are afraid of dental appointments. Premedication
is prescribed for patients with high levels of anxiety before dental treatment. However, study
of each patient’s medical history reveals a significant number of comorbidities limiting the use of
medications for the prevention of stress and pain at a dentist’s appointment. This study evaluated the
perception of pain of elderly patients with middle and high levels dentophobia during a surgical dental
appointment. All patients who participated in the study live in geriatric center. All patients before
tooth extraction surgery took the advice of a psychiatrist and neurologist. Patients with a high level of
a dentophobia were given an over the counter premedication and local anesthesia with a solution of
4% articaine with vasoconstrictor in a dilution of 1:200000. Premedication was not administered for
patients with a middle level of dentophobia, and local anesthesia was administered using a 3% mepivacaine
solution without vasoconstrictor. Evaluation of pain perception was carried out by the following
methods: electroodontodiagnosis, electromyography of facial muscles, Sound Eyes Motor Scale and
the visual analogue scale. The results obtained using these methods have shown a reliable correlation
between each other. The efficiency of premedication was proven as reducing the perception of pain of
patients with high level of dentophobia. Refs 15. Figs 4.
Keywords:
pain, elderly age, dentistry, dentophobia, gerontology, local anesthesia
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