Siddiqui Zasim, Wang Yue, Makkad Payal, Thyvalikakath Thankam
Dental Informatics Core, Indiana University School of Dentistry, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.
Stud Health Technol Inform. 2017;245:1166-1169.
Scant knowledge exists on the type of restorative treatments Sjögren's syndrome patients (SSP) receive in spite of their high dental disease burden due to hyposalivation. Increased adoption of electronic dental records (EDR) could help in leveraging information from these records to assess dental treatment outcomes in SSP. In this study, we evaluated the feasibility of using EDR to characterize the dental treatments SSP received and assess the longevity of implants in these patients. We identified 180 SSP in ten years of patients' data at the Indiana University School of Dentistry clinics. A total of 104 (57.77%) patients received restorative or endodontic treatments. Eleven patients received 23 implants with a survival rate of 87% at 40 months follow-up. We conclude that EDR data could be used for characterizing the treatments received by SSP and for assessing treatment outcomes.
尽管干燥综合征患者（SSP）由于唾液分泌减少而面临较高的牙齿疾病负担，但关于他们接受的修复治疗类型的知识却很少。电子牙科记录（EDR）的更多采用有助于利用这些记录中的信息来评估SSP的牙科治疗结果。在本研究中，我们评估了使用EDR来描述SSP接受的牙科治疗并评估这些患者中植入物寿命的可行性。我们在印第安纳大学牙科学院诊所十年的患者数据中识别出180名SSP。共有104名（57.77%）患者接受了修复或牙髓治疗。11名患者接受了23颗植入物，在40个月的随访中生存率为87%。我们得出结论，EDR数据可用于描述SSP接受的治疗并评估治疗结果。
