Patient satisfaction after trigeminal nerve repair.
Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Pathol Oral Radiol Endod
; 95(5): 538-43, 2003 May.
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| ID: mdl-12738944
ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE:
The purpose of this study was to measure patient satisfaction and to evaluate the factors influencing patients' perceptions of the outcome of inferior alveolar nerve or lingual nerve repair. STUDYDESIGN:
We used a retrospective cohort study design and a sample of patients who underwent repair of inferior alveolar nerve or lingual nerve injuries. The major outcome variable was the patient's overall satisfaction with treatment. The patient's satisfaction was rated as either good to excellent (group A) or fair to poor (group B).RESULTS:
The study sample was composed of 46 patients with a mean age of 28 +/- 12 years; 76% were female. Fifty-five percent of the sample reported their overall satisfaction to be good to excellent. No individual predictor factors were statistically associated with patient satisfaction. Among the outcome variables, the measures of taste, pronunciation, self-consciousness, and function were statistically significantly different (P <.05) between the 2 groups.CONCLUSIONS:
After nerve repair, more than half of the patients rated their overall satisfaction with the operative results to be good to excellent.
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Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Satisfação do Paciente
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Nervo Lingual
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Nervo Mandibular
Tipo de estudo:
Etiology_studies
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Incidence_studies
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Observational_studies
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Prognostic_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
Limite:
Adult
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Female
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Humans
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Male
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Pathol Oral Radiol Endod
Ano de publicação:
2003
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Estados Unidos