Atención odontológica a pacientes con discapacidad mental y psicomotriz en la Facultad de Odontología de Mexicali.

Background: Oral diseases in patients with disabilities involve complex processes in both attention and communication, so dental treatment under general anesthesia is an excellent option. Purpose: To describe the experiences in dental care under general anesthesia to patients with mental and psychomotor disabilities registered in the clinics of the Faculty of Dentistry Mexicali (FOM). Methods: Observational, analytical, cross-sectional study on aspects of dental care, with data available in clinical records of all patients operated under general anesthesia, in the FOM operating room, during 2016 and 2017, the data were emptied for analysis and description in the statistical package STATA12. Results: The sample was conformed by 38 cases, the masculine sex prevailed over the feminine one (68% vs 32%). The mean age was 15.71 ± 8.75 years, dental caries was the need for more frequent care, followed by dentoalveolar trauma, and periodontal disease. In the bivariate analysis, a significant association was found between complications and the duration of the procedure with X2 = 7.05 and a value of p = 0.029. Conclusion: Psychomotor disability predominated, with a greater incidence in children under 10 years of age and in the male sex. All patients had dental caries, which was accompanied by dentoalveolar fracture in more than a third of the cases, so there was a high need for surgical treatments. The frequency of complications derived from general anesthesia were few and were associated with the time of exposure to general anesthesia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]