Özet:

Dental caries in childhood has been an important health problem for many years. Dental caries occurs due to interactions between cariogenic microorganisms, fermentable carbohydrates and host susceptibility. Unfortunately, dental caries cannot limit itself. Therefore, professional intervention is necessary to address the consequences of dental caries. Providing dental treatment to pediatric patients is particularly challenging for children who are uncooperative due to their young age, immature, or have physical/mental disabilities. These patients can be managed using pharmacological techniques. These methods are frequently used to primarily treat children with large caries lesions, especially in patients with high caries risk. In this study, it was aimed to evaluate the relationship between dental treatment approaches, dental treatment durations and patient complaints in pediatric patients treated under general anesthesia and sedation. The data of the patients whose dental examinations were performed by experienced pedodontists and medical examinations by experienced pediatricians were obtained. Patients were divided into groups according to general anesthesia and sedation, presence of systemic disease, duration of dental treatment and postoperative patient complaints.In the study, p<0.05 was considered statistically significant. Analyzes were made with the SPSS 22.0 package program. It was observed that there was a significant difference between the duration of treatment and patient complaints. As treatment duration increased, sleepiness increased (p=0.01). It was determined that the rate of patient complaints after anesthesia in the group with the systemic disease was significantly higher (p=0.04). Even if successful dental treatments are performed under general anesthesia and sedation, these methods do not help prevent the development of caries lesions. The focus of pediatric dentists should be on an approach to preventing oral diseases.

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