MEDICALLY COMPROMISED PATIENT
MEDICALLY COMPROMISED PATIENT
CATEGORIES OF SPECIAL NEEDS
Category I healthy Patients who require no special modification
Category II patients with medical conditions who require scheduling changes or shorter appointments
Category III patients with medical conditions that have lifelong implications
Category IV patients with medical conditions who require more significant modifications
Category V patients with serious medical conditions which require only limited care to eliminate serious acute oral disease. This level includes patients who must be kept free of pain and discomfort.
AGEING POPULATION
Stages of Aging
Oral Health Conditions
Oral Health of the Aging
BEHAVIOURAL AND PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS
ANOREXIA NERVOSA
ANXIETY
BIPOLAR DISORDER
DEPRESSION
EATING DISORDERS
POST TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER
SCHIZOPHRENIA
BLOOD DISORDERS
ANAEMIA
HEMOPHILIA
Chapter 17: Haematological emergencies (2016) Description People with bleeding disorders bleed easily and may lose excessive amounts of blood as a result of injuries, surgery, or dental surgery. Severe bleeding disorders may even cause spontaneous bleeding without any injury. Injury to a blood vessel initiates a series of events that result in the formation of a clot (haemostasis).
LEUKEMIA
DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS
AUTISM
CEREBRAL PALSY
DOWNS SYNDROME
MENTAL RETARDATION / INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY
CARDIOVASCULAR DISORDERS
ANGINA
CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE
ENDOCARDITIS
HYPERTENSION
ENDOCRINE DISORDERS
DIABETES MELLITUS - TYPE 1 & 2
HYPERTHYROIDISM
HYPOTHROIDISM
NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS
STROKE
ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE (Dementia)
MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS
SEIZURES (Epilepsy)
NEUROMUSCULAR DISORDERS
AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS - LOU GEHRIG DISEASE
ARTHRITIS
MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY
Muscular dystrophy is the name given to a group of neuromuscular disorders that cause progressive and irreversible weakness and wasting of the muscles. There are more than 30 different types of muscular dystrophy.
PARKINSON'S DISEASE
PHYSICAL DISORDERS
PATIENT IN A WHEELCHAIR
VISION IMPAIRED
HEARING IMPAIRED
PULMONARY DISORDERS
ALLERGIES
BRONCHIAL ASTHMA
CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE