Prevalencia de sensibilidad postoperatoria de restauración clase I en la clínica UCSG semestre B-2019.

Abstract

Introduction: Dental sensitivity is a painful sensation to thermal, chemical and tactile stimuli such as cold, calorie and chewing to the dentinal tubules causing acute pain as a result of a stimulation of specialized sensory nerve endings, potentially could be affected by restorative treatments defective According to the literature, it is related to the professional's knowledge regarding the type of cavity and depth, as well as the materials and techniques. Objective: To determine the prevalence of postoperative sensitivity in patients sometimes restored class I of Black at the UCSG clinic. Materials and methods: A cross-sectional study was carried out in the dental clinic of the Catholic University of Santiago de Guayaquil. The universe was 94 treatments of which we included patients older than 16 years treated in the UCSG clinic, treatments with class I restoration and our patients agreed to be part of the study, patients with class II, III, IV, V restorations were excluded. and those who present with apical lesions, evaluate the patients 7 days after the restorative treatment Results: the 94 teeth that were evaluated after each treatment the postoperative sensitivity is present in 58.51% and those that did not present with a 41.49%. the most frequent cause that leards to a restoration was dental caries which resulted in 64.9% Conclusion: In the present study it was concluded that post restoration sensitivity prevails in 55% of which men were the ones that were the most sensitive. It could be concluded that the cause of the restorations was mostly fed by dental caries, which determines the post-operative sensitivity that is most present in mild sensitivity.