What are the possible postoperative complications that may occur for children following dental treatment under general anaesthesia and is there a correlation between those complications and type of dental treatment done?
Nowadays, early childhood caries (ECC) remains a significant challenge of public health in Egyptian children. In most cases, children with ECC could accept dental treatment under non-pharmacological behavior management or sedation. However, some very young children or those suffering severe anxiety, mental or physical disabilities, could only be treated under dental general anesthesia (DGA). Dental general anesthesia (DGA) is a safe and high-quality restorative and preventive treatment option for children with severe early childhood caries (S-ECC), who require extensive dental treatment and exhibit anxiety and emotional or cognitive immaturity or are medically compromised. However, several postoperative complications have been reported in children under DGA in many studies. For a day-stay, general anesthesia procedure to be an acceptable option, care during and after surgery must be of the highest quality, and postoperative complications must be minimized.
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
110
Extraction, pulp therapy or both
Postoperative pain
pain would be assessed through the faces pain scale- revised this scale is self-report measure of pain intensity for children. These six faces expression show how much something can hurt, face 1 take score 0 no pain as minimum limit, face 2 take score 2, face 3 take score 4, face 4 take score 6, face 5 take score 8, face 6 take score 10 that the maximum limit "Very much pain."
Time frame: Baseline
Fever
postoperative fever would be assessed through thermometer, the range of normal body temperature from (36,5 \_37,5) °C. from (37,5- 38) ° Cit considers low grade fever. Above 38° C it considers high grade fever. Fever may be accompanied by irritable or very uncomfortable. poor eye contact with the surrounding, vomits repeatedly, severe diarrhea, seizures, pain. , severe headache, muscle weakness, difficulty breathing.
Time frame: Baseline
Weariness and drowsiness
That would be assessed through questionnaire.by asking the patient binary yes or no questions.
Time frame: Baseline
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