[Oral sedation in pediatric outpatient dentistry]. / Primenenie peroral'noi sedatsii pri ambulatornom stomatologicheskom vmeshatel'stve u detei.

THE AIM OF THE STUDY: Was to improve the quality of treatment in pediatric outpatient dentistry with the effective use of oral sedation. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The study comprised 60 children aged 3-12 years who were undergoing therapeutic/surgical dental treatment. All children's somatic state was assessed as ASAI-II. All children met a number of psychological, anamnestic and procedural criteria. Midazolam and chloropyramine in a dose calculated for the patient's body weight were used as components of oral sedation. The estimated sedation depth was Ramsay II-III. The study included an analysis of objective (the time of comfortable treatment, the amount of treated or removed teeth per visit, the possibility of treatment without anesthesia during further visits) and subjective (the possibility of contact with the child during treatment, behavioral reactions at home and on further visits) criteria. Negative behavioral reactions and dental effects were also assessed. RESULTS: The treatment features correlated with the age category and gender of the patient. In the older age group of 7-12 years, the amount of comfortable treatment time was higher, the possibility of contact with the child reached 100% (which is twice as much as in the younger one), and also a larger number of patients were treated during further visits without an anesthetic aid. At the same time, in the younger age group of 3-6 years, the volume of treatment per visit was higher, since it takes less time to treat a primary tooth than for a permanent one. Side effects (visual hallucinations, diplopia, hyperactivity, tearfulness and aggressiveness) were more often recorded in the younger age group, but emotional instability was equally manifested in both groups. CONCLUSION: In order to maximize the effectiveness of using oral sedation as a method, it is necessary to take into account the duration and traumatism of the proposed procedure, the peculiarities of age psychology and the peculiarities of the psychological development of boys and girls.

[DETERMINATION OF THE STATE OF MICROCIRCULATION BY MEANS OF COMPUTER CAPILLAROSCOPY IN CHILDREN SEDATED WITH RETENTION OF CONSCIOUSNESS IN OUTPATIENT PEDIATRIC DENTAL TREATMENT].

UNLABELLED: Dental treatment of infants and pre-school children is challenging because of high rate of dental fear General anesthesia is the only option for behavioral control in this age group. In case of minor medical procedure physical restrain is also used often enough aggravating the fear An alternate method for comfortable treatment is monitored conscious sedation (MCS). Standard techniques of monitoring do not always provide accurate determination of stress level in children since the external stress manifestations may appear non-significant and unobtrusive. Computer capillaroscopy (CC) allows real time evaluation of early functional disorders at the microlevel and of anesthesia efficiency in vivo. OBJECTIVE AND METHODS: The research involved 298 children. 256 of them were treated under MCS and 42 constituted reference group treated without MCS. The groups were also divided into subgroups according to age: 0-3 and 3-6 year olds. Therapeutic and surgical treatment features were analyzed separately. MCS was conducted by means of intramuscular injection of midazolam in dosages of 0.1, 0.15, and 0.2 mg per kg. BIS, arterial blood pressure, heart rate, respiratory rate, and SpO2 were monitored at 4 stages while the following microcirculation parameters were recorded by CC: density of capillary net, the size of arterial, venous and transitional microcirculation links (ML), linear and volume bloodflow velocity, perfusion balance. The obtained data were statistically processed and analyzed with the use of Statistica Stat Soft 8.0 software. CONCLUSIONS: Children undergoing dental treatment without MCS are affected by stress. The degree of stress in surgical patients was noted to be significantly higher The absence of physiological parameters changes in children treated without MSC is not a proof of the absence of stress. The dose of 0.15 mg per kg is optimal for the comfortable level of MSC. The increase of midazolam-dose over 0.15 mg per kg is not associated with further reduction of stress. The obtained data is true for both age categories.

[Sedation with midazolam for ambulatory pediatric dentistry].

OBJECTIVE: To improve the quality of dental treatment in children by using combined anaesthesia technique including local anaesthesia and conscious sedation, and to assess the effectiveness of conscious sedation for younger children undergoing dental treatment. METHODS: The study included 208 children aged 14-88 months who received dental treatment for tooth decay and its complication under combined anaesthesia. Midazolam was used as sedative medication. Sedation level was assessed by visual scale and BIS-monitoring. ANI-monitoring was also used for pain sensitiveness evaluation. Results All 208 children were successfully treated under combined anaesthesia which showed satisfactory sedation rates both by visual scale and and BIS-monitoring values. While mean patient age was 39 months 20.6% were younger than 24 months. These data are extremely valuable as according to literature review conscious sedation in early infancy remains controversial. CONCLUSIONS: Our results proved conscious sedation to be effective in younger children undergoing dental treatment thus representing important alternative for general anaesthesia and providing a basis for later behavior management.