title: [Oral surgery as the patient's immediate cause of death].
abstract: The purpose of this study was to determine how often patients have died after treatment by an oral surgeon in the Netherlands. A review of the literature showed that this kind of complication has rarely been described in international literature. Subsequently, a small questionnaire was sent to 274 Dutch oral surgeons; 140 questionnaires were returned (51% response). The oral surgeons participating in the survey had had, on average, 21 years of work experience and 4.3% were women. Forty percent of the respondents confirmed that they had experienced the death of a patient after oral surgery. Most (18 patients) died after a dental extraction. The most important causes of death were post-operative spreading of an infection (15 patients), failing to survive oncology treatment (9 patients) and as the third cause of death, heart and/or lung failure was named (6 patients).
authors: Sectie Sociale Tandheelkunde en Voorlichtingskunde, Academisch Centrum Tandheelkunde Amsterdam (ACTA). maj.eijkman@acta.nl
authors: M A J
authors: MA
authors: Eijkman
authors: G
authors: G
authors: Hoekstra
authors: M
authors: M
authors: Ghahramani
mesh_terms: D002423:Cause of Death; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000401:mortality; D019647:Oral Surgical Procedures / Q000401:mortality*; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000401:mortality*; D013530:Surgical Wound Infection / Q000401:mortality; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014081:Tooth Extraction / Q000401:mortality