Blood Pressure Evaluation in Dental Patients Seeking Dental Services in the Oral Diagnosis Clinic, Faculty of Dentistry, Chiang Mai University
Introduction: Hypertension is a common disease and related to many diseases , drug usage and many risk factors such as alcohol or caffeine consumption. Many dental patients have not realized that they have hypertension that may affect dental treatment plan. Moreover, some dental treatment may increase the blood pressure of patient. If the dentist can identify these hypertensive patients, the patients can be referred to a physician to get some treatment promptly. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to evaluate blood pressure of dental patients seeking dental services in Oral Diagnosis clinic, Faculty of Dentistry, Chiang Mai University, Thailand.
Materials and methods: The blood pressure taken from 1,194 patients seeking dental services in the clinic between July 2007 and January 2008 were recorded and classified according to JNC 7 report recommendation. The result was described by using descriptive statistic.
Results: The result revealed that 757 patients (63.4%) had normal blood pressure and 437 patients (36.6%) had high blood pressure. We also found that the mean age of peoples with prehypertension, Stage I hypertension and Stage II hypertension tended to be higher accordingly. Interestingly, 57 of 100 stage I hypertension patients did not know about their blood pressure condition.
Conclusion: We recommend to record the blood pressure of all patients who will have dental management. The patients with blood pressure higher than 140/90 mm Hg should be referred to a physician for treatment and controlling the disease.
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