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Guillermo Machuca Portillo
Consensus Report of the XI Congress of the Spanish Society of Odontology for the Handicapped and Special Patients
This article summarizes the findings of consensus of the XI congress of the SEOEME. All of these conclusions are referring to the review articles responsible to the general rapporteurs in order to bringing up to date knowledge with regard to the use of implants in patients medically compromised and with special needs and, in the dental management of autism and cerebral palsy, in the dental treatment of patients with genetic and adquired haemato - logical disorders, the dental implications of cardiovascular disease and hospital dentistry.
Cardiopatías y enfermedades periodontales: ¿existen evidencias de asociación?
Las enfermedades cardiovasculares representan una de las principales causas de muerte en las sociedades desarrolladas. Estas enfermedades no sólo son importantes por la mortalidad que generan, sino por la gran cantidad de individuos afectados y en tratamiento que han de soportar los sistemas de salud de los distintos países. De ahí que la detección precoz de los factores de riesgo conducentes a desencadenar estas enfermedades haya sido vista como el mecanismo más eficaz para prevenirlas. En los últimos tiempos se viene relacionando de una manera más o menos directa a la patología periodontal con el padecimiento de enfermedades cardiovasculares. Este hecho podría tener una gran relevancia cl…
Use of Anesthetics Associated to Vasoconstrictors for Dentistry in Patients With Cardiopathies. Review of the Literature Published in the Last Decade
Objective: The use of local anesthetics associated to vasoconstrictor agents in dentistry is thoroughly justified and is widely extended, but we cannot ignore the fact that anesthetic infiltration poses risk of complications throughout the dental treatment period. The objective of the present review is to document the reported effects the use of the local anesthetics most widely employed in dentistry, with or without association to vasoconstrictor agents may have in patients with any sort of cardiopathy. Study Design: We have searched for randomized clinical trials on the assessment of the cardiovascular effects of local anesthetics used in dentistry, without limits as regards age or sex, c…