PURPOSE: To create a study designed to assess patient satisfaction and preference for oral versus intravenous sedation in conjunction with periodontal surgical procedures. METHODS: Twenty-six patients who required at least two periodontal surgery procedures and requested sedation for treatment, participated in our study at VCU Department of Periodontics. This was a randomized, cross-over design with groups which received an intravenous sedative regimen with or without oral sedation premedication for one surgery and oral sedation medication alone for the other surgery. The primary outcome measurement was the type of sedation preferred by the subject. RESULTS: 14/26 (53.8%) subjects indicated a preference for intravenous sedation, compared with 7/26 (26.9%) subjects who preferred oral sedation alone. 1/26 (3.8%) subject reported that they would prefer no sedation after experiencing both oral and oral/intravenous combination sedation methods. 4/26 (15.3%) of the subjects who completed the study reported “No Difference” with regards to their preference for either method of sedation. CONCLUSION: More subjects preferred intravenous sedation and would consent to the sedation again for any future needed surgery. This study supports the need to offer intravenous sedation with periodontal surgery

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T14:13:58Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 GiselleGS.pdf: 211619 bytes, checksum: 6067524ca70f63167077629a96864d9a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-12-11 / Ideally the smile should expose minimal gingival, therefore patients with gummy smile and passive eruption altered or excessive marginal gingivae, usually excessive gingival display because incomplete anatomical crown exposure is present. If the maxillary incisor show at rest is optimal, active upper incisor intrusion should not be iniciated. To achieve a smile with minimal gingival exposure, the anatomic crown should be fully exposed by surgical crown lengthening. Precise determination of the location of cementoenamel junction prior to surgery, precise placement of incisions and correct establish of biological width are necessary in order to achive this goal. One protocol is decribed and clinical results from 15 brazilian subjects, after three years post surgery are showed / Este projeto consagrou o encontro de duas ?reas do conhecimento: Periodontia e Fonoaudiologia, sendo o mesmo orientado por uma cirurgi? dentista, doutora em Odontologia e realizado por uma fonoaudi?loga mestre em Dist?rbios da Comunica??o. Os experimentos foram realizados por uma equipe multidisciplinar, composta por fonoaudi?logo e cirurgi?es dentistas que buscaram a rela??o em indiv?duos portadores de sorriso gengival e as implica??es miofuncionais orais. Objetivo: A proposta deste estudo foi verificar a influ?ncia do sorriso gengival no vedamento labial. Metodos: 18 indiv?duos com sorriso gingival e dificuldade no vedamento labial foram submetidos a avali??o oromiofuncional e eletromiografia de superf?cie parea verificar o esfor?o do m?sculo mentual para a realiza??o do vedamento labial nas condi??es pr? e p?s cir?rgica. Foi realizada cirurgia periodontal para remover o excesso de tecido gengival e/ou volume ?sseo da pr?-maxila e, ap?s 6 meses os pacientes foram reavaliados. Resultados: Diminui??o da contra??o e tens?o do musculo mentual foi clinicamente observado durante o vedamento labial e a an?lise eletromiogr?fica revelou uma diferen?a estatisticamente significante (27.67 ?RMS - 6.46 ?RMS, p=0.004) no esfor?o do m?sculo mentual para o vedamento labial ap?s a cirurgia. Conclus?o: O vedamento labial ? infuenciado pelo volume ?sseo e/ou gingival e a cirurgia periodontal contribiu para um contato mais suave entre os l?bios

In this scientific work was performed the extended study of hypersensitive teeth on patients with chronic periodontitis in order to evaluate the frequency of this painful condition and the intensity of provoked pain, its dependency on individual′s age, sex, nutrition and oral hygiene habits, extent of tooth mobility and dental attachment loss, amount of the plaque on tooth surfaces, professional oral hygiene, surgical treatment of chronic periodontitis; to examine the structure of dental pulp and hard tissue of hypersensitive teeth, to assess the effectiveness and possibility of treatment using a new generation desensitizing materials. It was determined that the prevalence of teeth hypersensitivity and the pain intensity among the patients with chronic periodontitis is high and directly dependent on individual′s nutrition, oral hygiene habits, age, the extent of tooth mobility and dental attachment loss; professional oral hygiene and surgical treatment significantly increases the pain intensity of hypersensitive teeth; were not found any structural changes in the pulp, hard tissues and myelinated nerve fibres of hypersensitive teeth; new generation desensitizing materials ensure fast, effective and long-lasting reduction of pain intensity.