Pain and associated factors in patients attending an emergency dental service in southern Brazil

• Autor(a) principal: Barbosa, Alessandra Noro Fernandes
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Barbosa, Marcela Noro Fernandes, Malta, Cristiana Pereira, Franciscatto, Gisele Jung, Giordani, Jessye Melgarejo do Amaral, Morgental, Renata Dornelles
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por; eng
• Título da fonte: Revista da ABENO (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://revabeno.emnuvens.com.br/revabeno/article/view/1021
• topic: Odontalgia; Epidemiologia; Pesquisa sobre Serviços de Saúde; Socorro de Urgência; Educação Odontológica.; Toothache; Epidemiology; Health Services Research; Emergency Relief; Endodontics.

This cross-sectional study aimed to evaluate the pain outcome and associated factors in patients attending an emergency dental service in southern Brazil. One hundred and thirty-seven (137) patient records from an extension project for emergency dental care training at the Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (Santa Maria, RS, Brazil), relative to the period from April 2017 to December 2018, were evaluated. The data in the records, self-reported by the patients, were collected, and variables related to socioeconomic, medical and dental characteristics were subjected to descriptive statistical analysis and multivariate Poisson regression. The prevalence of pain in these patients was 65.2%, and the most prevalent diagnostic hypothesis was irreversible acute pulpitis (46.2% of the cases). The demand for care was greater in the age group between 40-59 years (48.6%), in women (64%), in patients without university education (85.3%), and posterior teeth were the most frequently treated (82.7%). There was an association between the presence of pain and medical variables, being that patients with more than two systemic diseases had a higher prevalence of pain. The inadequate completion of dental records was a common finding, which can impair the establishment of the epidemiological profile of these patients and the efficient planning of future dental care services, as well as cause legal problems.