Title

The link between gender and post-extraction complications of teeth

Authors

Madhuluxmi et al.

Affiliation

Saveetha Dental College and Hospitals, Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Sciences, Saveetha University, Chennai, India

Email

Article Type

Research Article

Date

Received October 7, 2020; Revised October 27, 2020; Accepted October 27, 2020; Published December 31, 2020

Extraction of teeth is a common procedure in dentistry. Recalling patients for monitoring wound healing is a concern in surgical procedures. It allows foreseeing signs or/and symptoms possibly related to surgical complications. Therefore, it is of interest to document
the link between gender and complications in post extraction. The null hypothesis was age and gender had no impact on post dental extraction. We used patient records at Saveetha Dental College, India for this study. The overall follow-up rate post-extraction is less
compared to known literature. Data shows that males outnumbered the females and those “above 40 years” than “below 40 years” in follow-up. Thus, we report that factors such as gender, age and the presence of a post-operative complication play a key role in
determining whether a patient reports back for follow-up after routine extractions.

Keywords

exodontia; follow-up; forceps extraction; gender; post-extraction complications.

Citation

Madhuluxmi et al. Bioinformation 16(12): 1128-1133 (2020)

Edited by

P Kangueane

ISSN

0973-2063

Publisher

Biomedical Informatics

License

This is an Open Access article which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. This is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.