Importance of Medical History & Management

Due to the growing number of dental patients, particularly among older persons with ongoing medical issues, dentists need to stay up to date on a broad range of medical illnesses and medications. Prior knowledge of a patient's physical condition and nature of patient's disease, how it can impact their physiology, their response to dental management and post dental treatment healing enables the doctor to modify the treatment plan that leads to a significant reduction in occurrence of acute medical emergencies in medically compromised patients.