AN EVALUATION ON PATTERNS,AND CAUSES OF REFERRING PATIENTS TO ORAL DISEASES AND DIAGNOSIS DEPARTMENT OF MASHHAD DENTAL FACULTY FROM SEPTEMBER TO DECEMBER 2000

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DELAVARIAN Z.; ZAVVAR S.

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Journal: JOURNAL OF ISLAMIC DENTAL ASSOCIATION OF IRAN (MAJALLAH-I-DANDANPIZISHKI) Year:2004 | Volume:16 | Issue:2 (49) Page(s): 62-70

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AN EVALUATION ON PATTERNS,AND CAUSES OF REFERRING PATIENTS TO ORAL DISEASES AND DIAGNOSIS DEPARTMENT OF MASHHAD DENTAL FACULTY FROM SEPTEMBER TO DECEMBER 2000

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DELAVARIAN Z. | ZAVVAR S. | Issue Writer Certificate

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ATTENDANCE CAUSESQ4

CHIEF COMPLAINTQ4

SOURCES OF REFERRALQ4

CAUSES OF REFERRALQ4

ORAL DISEASESQ3

Abstract

Background and aim: Successful treatment and health could be achieved by ontime referring and rapid and accurate diagnosis. It sounds necessary to study the reasons underlying patients" delay in their referral to specialists. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to determine the main reasons of patients" attendance, sources and causes of their referral to oral medical center of Mashhad Dental Faculty.Materials and Methods: All subjects referring to this centre, from September to December 2000, were examined and questionnaires were filled out for them. Sampling method was consecutive using poison's method. The study was of cross-sectional type that performed descriptively.The subjects included 1310, 501 (38.2%) males and 809 (61.8%) females with the mean age of 28.21±14.59 ranging from 1 to 78 year.Results: Out of the total patients, only 76 (5.80%) of them had oral lesion or symptom complaint and other referred for dental problems. The most common CHIEF COMPLAINTs were ranked as: dental filling (44.4%), denture (21.7%), toothache (19.4%) and periodontal diseases (13.4%). Patients with oral lesion or symptom were referred by dentists (73.3%), medical practitioners (11.53%), others (8.9%) and by themselves (8.9%). Each patient was examined, (on) average, by 2.38±1.56 clinicians (ranging from 1 to 7 ones). Mean period from the onset of oral-facial lesions as noticed by the patients, until they referred to clinic was 17.07±35.17 months (ranging from 1 day to 192 months). The most prevalent causes for patients" referral to oral medical center consisted of: inflammatory hyperplasia (11.8%), jaw cysts (10.52%), lichen planus (9.2%), abcess (5.26%), recurrent aphthous stomatitis (5.26%) and pain (6.57%).Conclusion: Patients with oral lesions, for different reasons such as improper examinations by non-specialists, do not refer to Oral medical center on time. Therefore, intercommunication between oral specialists and other practitioners and also the improvement of general health knowledge, should be considered as a priority in any health system.

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DELAVARIAN, Z., & ZAVVAR, S.. (2004). AN EVALUATION ON PATTERNS,AND CAUSES OF REFERRING PATIENTS TO ORAL DISEASES AND DIAGNOSIS DEPARTMENT OF MASHHAD DENTAL FACULTY FROM SEPTEMBER TO DECEMBER 2000. JOURNAL OF IRANIAN DENTAL ASSOCIATION (JIDA) (MAJALLAH-I-DANDANPIZISHKI), 16(2 (49)), 62-70. SID. https://sid.ir/paper/54858/en

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DELAVARIAN Z., ZAVVAR S.. AN EVALUATION ON PATTERNS,AND CAUSES OF REFERRING PATIENTS TO ORAL DISEASES AND DIAGNOSIS DEPARTMENT OF MASHHAD DENTAL FACULTY FROM SEPTEMBER TO DECEMBER 2000. JOURNAL OF IRANIAN DENTAL ASSOCIATION (JIDA) (MAJALLAH-I-DANDANPIZISHKI)[Internet]. 2004;16(2 (49)):62-70. Available from: https://sid.ir/paper/54858/en

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Z. DELAVARIAN, and S. ZAVVAR, “AN EVALUATION ON PATTERNS,AND CAUSES OF REFERRING PATIENTS TO ORAL DISEASES AND DIAGNOSIS DEPARTMENT OF MASHHAD DENTAL FACULTY FROM SEPTEMBER TO DECEMBER 2000,” JOURNAL OF IRANIAN DENTAL ASSOCIATION (JIDA) (MAJALLAH-I-DANDANPIZISHKI), vol. 16, no. 2 (49), pp. 62–70, 2004, [Online]. Available: https://sid.ir/paper/54858/en

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