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Volume 53, Issue 4, 2025

Online ISSN: 2560-3310

ISSN: 0350-8773

Volume 53 , Issue 4, (2025)

Published: 30.06.2025.

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01.06.2015.

Professional paper

Pain and justification from dental intervention

Patient fear from dental intervention is the most common cause of permanent disposal of the visits to the dentist by the patient , and there arise some magic circle in which symptoms of disease becomes more intensive , which proportionally increase the already present fear and further delay the visits to the dentist . The ultimate outcome is compromised oral health with early loss of teeth and chewing function , speech , etc. The aim of work is to determine the frequency of fear from dental intervention , occurrence of pain during certain phases of tooth extraction , its intensity , and justified fear of the patient from the most common oral surgery . The study includes 96 patients , aged 16-45 years , of whom 55 were male and 41 were female . For the assessment of fear of dental intervention was used Korah modified anxiety scale consisted of four questions ,in which every question has an answer and they are scored on a five point Likert scale . To determine the prevalence of pain in various stages of extraction there was used interview about the pain made up of three questions , and the sample consisted of patients divided by Kore scale into high and very high anxiety person. People who have positively responded to the questionnaire, the pain was further determined with visual analogue scale. For statistical analysis we used hi square test at a significance of level p<0,05. Modified Kore scale in a group of very highly anxious individuals were classified as 8 (7.68%), highly anxious individuals 15 (14.4%), moderately anxious individuals 31 (29.76%)and in the group of people without anxiety 42 patients (40, 32%).From a total of 23 patients identified as high and very high anxiety , only three (14%) felt the pain during the observation and characterized as a mild by using visual analogue scale as mild. By using Hi-square test (p<0,05) there were significant differences in responses( x²=12,6>5,92) . Five patients (22,74%) felt the pain during anesthesia where was found statistically significant differences in responses (X ²=7.34> 5.91) . Two patients (8.7%) registered the pain during tooth extraction and all the pain was characterized as mild to moderate. There was no statistically significant difference using the Hi square in the responses (x²=15,69>5,91 za p<0,05). The frequency of dental anxiety in our sample was very high in comparison with similar studies in the west of Europe, and the possible cause among other things, can be considered as a lower level of education of the population on which we must work. The emergence of real pain in high and very high anxiety patients during tooth extraction is very small, which indicate the unjustified fear of this type of intervention .

F. Djordjevic, J. Stanisic, A. Djordjevic, Z. Vlahovic, R. Mladenovic

15.01.2014.

Case Reports

'Store and forward' telemedicinska konsultacija u endodontsko-oralnohirurškoj praksi

Telemedicina je kao sistem pružanja zdravstvene zaštite, definisana od Svetske zdravstvene organizacije (SZO) kao praktična zdravstvena zaštita koja koristi interaktivnu zvučnu, vizuelnu komunikaciju i razmenu podataka. Univerzitetski telemedicinski centar u Kosovskoj Mitrovici obezbeđuje stalnu dostupnost kadra neophodnih specijalnosti za brzu i efikasnu telekonsultaciju u slučajevima kada je ona neophodna ili se nameće kao metoda izbora u pomoći kod postavljanja dijagnoze, ali i planiranja i sprovođenja same terapije. Prikazana je 'store and forward' telemedicinska konsultacija u vidu slučaja normalnog nivoa hitnosti koji je zahtevao interdisciplinarni pristup između stomatologa endodonta i stomatologa oralnog hirurga. Kao pametna veza između telekonsultanata pri Univerzitetskom telemedicinskom centru korišćen je XPA3 online aplikacioni sistem. Nakon adekvatne telekonsultacije u kojoj su učestvovali lekari iz Kosovske Mitrovice, Niša i Podgorice, na pacijentu je uspešno sprovedena endodontsko oralnohirurška terapija, čime je pacijent u potpunosti zbrinut.

D. Dubovina, B. Mihailović, G. Tošić, D. Perić, Z. Vlahović, D. Živković, R. Jovanović, M. Miladinović

01.01.2010.

Case Reports

APPLICATION OF BREDENT MINI DENTAL IMPLANTS (MDI) IN TREATING TOTAL TOOTHLESS LOWER JAW - CASE REPORT

Introduction: Upon teeth are lost, morphological and functional disorders are caused on stomatognathic system. Since a longer period of time, total dentures made on conventional way were the best choice for treating toothless patients. Because of specific configuration of the toothless lower jaw, patients with total dentures mostly suffer problems with lower jaw total denture. From the time when osseointegration was applied as a successful clinical concept, implants have been used as well as for retention and stabilization of the total dentures. Case report: 66 years old male patient underwent surgery where implant-prosthetics rehabilitation of lower jaw is attained with application of four Bredent mini implants, used for retention and rehabilitation of total acrylic denture. The overall process was completed in one session within approximately one and a half hours, with the regular post surgical care and immediate load of implants. Conclusion: Taking into consideration simplicity, safety and non invasive procedure of placing mini implants, as well as their effect on improving quality of life of toothless patients, and economic aspect, we can conclude that along with classical and small implants they present future and method of choice for the rehabilitation of toothless patients.

Z. Vlahović, B. Mihailović, J. Todić, D. Dubovina

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