Safety of day surgery for patients with special needs.

Background: The objective of this study was to assess the safety and quality of day care management for dental surgery under general anaesthesia in a population with special needs and to compare the results with a control population.

Methods: A retrospective observational cohort study was performed. The study population included all patients who had day care dental surgery under general anaesthesia for one year.

[Difficulties in dental health care for the disabled].

Upper Normandy has several disadvantages in terms of access to dental health care for disabled people: an insufficient medical population, a lack of dental schools and dental care networks.A cross-sectional epidemiological investigation, using a questionnaire form, was carried out between November 2014 and February 2015 with a cohort of dentists in this region.The topics on this form focused firstly on accessibility and compliance with standards of dental offices and the influencing factors which are hampering their accessibility implementation, and secondly on the oral care of disabled patients by practitioners of this region : the impact of incentives, influencing factors which are complicating the dental care and the usage of private and public structures.

Needs in screening cardiovascular parameters during dental care in the elderly.

Aims: The aim of this study was to compare physiological reactivity during oral care between elderly and young subjects.

Materials And Methods: Heart rate (HR), systolic and diastolic blood pressure (SBP and DBP) and blood oxygen saturation (SPO2) were recorded seven times during two consecutive dental impression sessions in 31 complete denture wearers (aged 60.7+/-11.