Medically Compromised Flashcards
What are some reasons cleft lip/palate patients may be at higher risk for caries?
Cleft Lip/Palate
- Early feeding problems may lead to prolonged and more cariogenic feeding habits
- Parental indulgence
- Enamel defects
- Dental crowding, malocclusion
- Presence of other comorbidities (xerostomia)
What is the “rule of 10s” when it comes to surgery for infants?
10 weeks of age
10 lbs
>10g/dL hemoglobin
>10,000 WBC
What are some dental anomalies associated with cleft lip/palate?
- Missing teeth
- Supernumerary teeth
- Disorders of morphogenesis (disturbances in tooth shape and size)
What are some syndromes that are associated with congenital heart defects?
- Down syndrome
- Ehlers-Danlos syndrome
- Ellis-van Crevald syndrome
- Marfan syndrome (mitral valve prolapse, aorta dilation/dissection/aneurysm
- Muscular dystrophy
- Noonan syndrome
- Orofacial-digital syndrome
- Osteogenesis imperfecta (mitral valve)
- Rett syndrome - long QT syndrome, no azithromycin
- Rubenstein-Taybi syndrome (1/3rd of patients - VSD, ASD, PDA)
- Soto syndrome - cardiac anomalies (~20% -PDA, ASD, VSD- to more severe anomalies
- Stickler syndrome - mitral valve prolapse
- Turner syndrome
- VACTERL syndrome
- Williams syndrome
- Wolf- Hirschhorn Syndrome
What are the acynotic cardiac defects?
- Atrial septal defect
- Ventricular septal defect
- PDA
- Atrioventricular canal
What are the cyanotic cardiac defects?
- Tetralogy of Fallot
- Tricuspid Atresia
- Transposition of the Great Vessels
- Coarctation of Aorta
What are the right obstructive cardiac lesions?
Cyanotic
1.Tetralogy of Fallot
2.Tricuspid Atresia
3.Pulmonary Atresia
4.Transposition of the Great Vessels
A mother disclosing that her child has a heart defect. What follow-up questions will you ask her?
- What is the cardiac diagnosis that your child has?
- Medications
- Allergies
- How often does pt see the cardiologist?
- Cardiac consult: Name and contact information of cardiologist
- Hx of surgical repair: past and future
- Activity limitations
- SBE prophylaxis
A patient had a heart transplant 3 months ago. When can you consider any dental procedures for this child?
Wait at least 6 months for invasive dental procedures
Pt is immunosuppresed, bleeding problems, hypertension, renal/hepatic failure, ect
A patient had a heart transplant 7 months ago. What are some dental considerations after this surgery?
- Patient is immunosuppressed and will be throughout their life - susceptibile to infections, malignancies such as Kaposi’s sarcoma, lymphomas; immunosuppressant cyclosporine = gingival overgrowtn
- On anticoagulant medication - bleeding risk
- On antihypertensives - gingival overgrowth with calcium channel blockers like nifedipine
- Xerostomia
- SBE prophylaxis if valvulopathy develops
What are the indications for SBE prophylaxis?
- Prosthetic heart valve
- Previous hx of endocarditis
- Cardiac transplant pts who develop valvulopathy
- Congential heart defect, cyanotic and unrepaired
- Congentic heart defect, repaired within the last 6 months
- Congentic heart defect, repaired with residual defects
What is the normal range for hemoglobin in a healthy child?
10.5-18g/dL
Low: Hemorrhage, anemia
High: Polycythemia (too many RBC)
What is the normal range for hematocrit in a healthy child?
32%-52%
Low: Hemorrhage, anemia
High: Polycythemia, dehydration
What is the normal range for WBC in a healthy child?
1-23 months: 6,000-14,000mm3
2-9yo: 4,000-12,000mm3
10-18yo: 4,000-10,500mm3
What is the normal range for neutrophils in a healthy child?
1,500-8000mm3
<1500, consider antibiotic prophylaxis
<1000 defer elective dental care
What is the normal range for PT in a healthy child?
10.1-15seconds
Measures extrinsic pathway: play tennis outside
Prolonged in liver disease, impaired Vitamin K production, surgical trauma with blood loss
What is the normal range for aPTT in a healthy child?
depends on lab, will give you range
Measures intrinsic pathway: play table tennis outside
Prolonged in hemophilia A, B, and C and Von Willebrand’s disease
Cleft lip/palate patients require multidisciplinary care. Who else do you expect to be on this patient’s care team?
- Pediatrician
- Pediatric dentist
- Craniofacial team
- Plastic surgery
- Orthodontist
- ENT, otolaryngology
- Audiology
- Speech pathology
- Genetics
How does caries rate in CLP vs Non-CLP patients compare?
Higher in CLP patients
Hasslof et al 2007 systematic review of caries in CLP
What are some reasons that CLP may have increased caries risk?
- Enamel defects, enamel hypoplasia
- Early feeding problems - prolonged and more frequent feeding/eating
- Presence of other comorbidities (syndromes: Apert, DiGeorge, Goldenhar, Orofacial digital, Pierre Robin, Stickler, Treacher Collins
- Malocclusion
- Parental indulgence