Dental care and treatments provided under general anaesthesia in the Helsinki Public Dental Service

BMC Oral Health

Table 4 Treatments provided for dental general anaesthesia (DGA) patients (n=349) by patient characteristics

Treatments received	Total	Immigrant		Previous sedation		Previous DGA		Medically compromised
	n=349, %	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	No
		n=95, %	n=254, %	n=188, %	n=161, %	n=71, %	n=278, %	n=137, %	n=212, %
Filling	90	100	86	93	86	82	92	85	93
therapy		p<0.001		p=0.024		p=0.013		p=0.013
Tooth	65	66	64	65	64	55	67	66	64
extraction		p=0.709		p=0.777		p=0.052		p=0.768
Endodontics	30	47	24	29	32	14	35	23	35
		p<0.001		p=0.624		p<0.001		p=0.011
Prevention	24	31	22	32	16	34	22	26	24
		p=0.101		p<0.001		p=0.038		p=0.677
Periodontics	23	11	27	28	17	51	15	45	8
		p<0.001		p=0.015		p<0.001		p<0.001

Statistical evaluation by chi-square tests for differences according to patient characteristics.

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