2021 Flashcards
What nerves must be anaesthetised to remove tooth 48 safely
Inferior Alveolar Nerve
Lingual nerve
Long buccal nerve
What are two different ways to assess anaesthesia has been achieved?
- Probe around the tooth and ask the patient if they feel anything sharp
- ask if the patients lips and tongue feel numb
What is the dental terminology for pins and needle feeling or partial loss of sensation ?
Parasthesia
What is the dental terminology for painful, unpleasant sensation lasting for a fraction of a second ?
dysesthesia
What is the dental terminology for total loss of sensation?
Anaesthesia
What are 3 clinical reasons that could account for neurological-sensory deficits?
- crushing injury
- cutting/shredding injury
- transection of the nerve
- damage due to LA
What is the correct terminology for dry socket?
localised alveolar osteitis
What are predisposing factors of dry socket?
- smoking
- excessive mouth rinsing after extraction
- excessive trauma during extraction
- previous dry socket
- more common in mandibular extractions
- More common in posterior extractions
- More common in females
- Oral contraceptive pill
What are signs and symptoms of sry socket ?
pain disturbing the patients sleep
pain radiating to the ear
dull aching pain
bad breath (halitosis)
bad taste in the mouth
exposed bone that may be sensitive
What is the management for dry socket?
- reassure and support the patient
- debridement to remove the old clot and encourage new clot formation
- irrigate the socket with warm saline
- may give systemic analgesia
- antiseptic pack (BIP)
- advice patient on analgesia and hot salty mouthwash
What are risk factors of oral cancer ?
- smoking
- Alcohol intake
- HPV
- sunlight
- nutritional deficiencies
- candida infections
What radiation dose increases the risk of osteoradionecrosis?
doses over 60 Gy
What are oral complications of radiotherapy?
- osteoradionecrosis
- radiation caries
- hypogeusia - loss of taste due to radiation affecting taste buds
- xerostomia - may be due to damage of salivary glands
- difficulty wearing dentures
- more prone to fungal infections
- trismus may occur due to replacement fibrosis of muscles of mastication
what sites of the teeth are affected by radiation caries?
- gingival margins and incisor edges
what are causes of radiation caries?
- dry mouth
- loss of taste
- change in diet
- hypersensitivity of teeth makes OH difficult
What do you need to know about patients who have had radiotherapy?
- what dose of radiation was given
- what area of the body was exposed to the radiation
- duration of treatment
What are preventative measures used for patients who have had radiotherapy?
- OHI
- higher concentration of fluoride toothpaste
- fluoride varnish
how do you treat osteoradionecrosis?
- irrigation of necrotic debris
- remove loose sequestra
What methods help prevent risk of osteoradionecrosis?
- scale teeth near extraction site and use chlorohexidine mouthwash
- careful extraction technique
- antibiotics, chlorhexidine mouthwash and review
- hyperbaric oxygen before and after extraction to increase local tissue oxygenation
- close soft tissues
What methods help prevent risk of osteoradionecrosis?
- scale teeth near extraction site and use chlorohexidine mouthwash
- careful extraction technique
- antibiotics, chlorhexidine mouthwash and review
- hyperbaric oxygen before and after extraction to increase local tissue oxygenation
- close soft tissues
What is the most common cause of facial trauma in a female patients?
Domestic Abuse
What are the forms of abuse that may be involved in domestic abuse?
- Physical violence
- Verbal abuse
- Emotional abuse
- Sexual abuse
- Financial Abuse
What process should you follow to ask about the possibility of domestic abuse
AVDR
Ask - ask about abuse in a private setting
Validate - show you are concerned about them
Document - be specific and detailed, use patients own words and describe injuries in as much detail as possible
Refer - signpost to appropriate services
What are physical signs you may see in domestic abuse ?
- repeated injuries
- Bruises at different stages if healing
- dental/maxillofacial injuries
- facial bruising, strangle marks around the neck or fingertip bruising
- TMJ problems
-Orofacial pain