It is recognized that Cerebral Palsy (CP) can have
direct and indirect effects on oral health status, and that results in
Gingivitis, periodontitis and other oral diseases, because of their
inability to control muscle function and that makes oral hygiene
maintenance is a difficult task for patients.
Objectives: to assess the gingival and periodontal status in patients
with CP and compare that to their healthy siblings.
Both dentists and patient are interested to know the complications following
periodontal therapy. The purpose of this study was to document this
incidence following periodontal therapy carried out in a postgraduate
periodontal clinic at Damascus u
niversity, and to identify factors that
influence postprocedural pain.
214 patients between 18 to 57 years of age, most of them women ( 57,94% )
enrolled in this study. Pain was reported by 51,86% of the patients, which
means they needed analgesics after the first post operative day. Infections
were present in only 4 patients, two of them were under antibiotics.
Females experienced significantly more pain than males after periodontal
treatment. Pain decreased significantly in patients over 45. Also smoking
and prophylactic antibiotic reduced the incidence of postprocrdural pain.
In this study , ther e were no correlation between pain and the following:
periodontal dressing, systemic diseases, oral hygiene, types of periodontal
surgery and extent of the surgery. Surgical periodontal treatment is more
painful than non-surgical treatment, but even non-surgical therapy is
painful sometimes. 29,72% of the non-surgical therapy patients experienced
postprocedural pain. On the basis of this study ,it appears that minimal
complications were associated with periodontal therapy.
