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    Evaluation of Patients’ Experience Following Dental Implant Surgical Procedure
    (2020) Ajayi, D.M; Gbadebo, S.O.,; Ogunrinde,T.J.,; Sulaiman, A.O.; Adebayo, G.E.
    Background: Patient’s acceptability of dental implant prostheses may be influenced by the fact that a surgical procedure is involved. Adequate relevant information by the dental professionals pre-surgery, is therefore, paramount to alleviating the fear of surgery and contribute positively to patient’s ability to cope with post-surgical experience. This study, therefore, aimed at evaluating the postsurgical experience of the dental implant patients as against what was expected, and relate this with the information given pre surgery. Methodology: Post treatment self-completed questionnaires were administered to consented patients that had dental implants placed between July 2017 and December 2019. The surgical procedure followed the standard protocol and data related to post-surgical experience were collected one week after the surgery to obtain information on the level of pain/discomfort and amount of swelling experienced following surgery. The effect of the information on coping ability following surgery was also assessed. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics (p value ≤ 0.05). Results: Twenty-seven patients received 44 implants to replace 48 teeth. The mean age of the patients was 45 ± 16.3 (SD) years. Teeth mostly replaced were the maxillary central incisors (39.6%). The majority of the patients 77.7% reported to experience less pain/discomfort than expected and 66.6% had less swelling than expected. While 29.6% felt they had excellent explanation of what to expect, 51.9% said they had good explanation. The post-surgical experience between males and females was not statistically significant (pain: p = 0.08, swelling: p = 0.64). However, the majority (8/12) that had good to excellent information preoperatively, had significantly less discomfort than expected. Conclusion: Positive, encouraging and satisfactory experience of patients following implant surgical procedure is related to adequate and correct information pre-surgery. How
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    Restorative Dental Care and CO V ID -19 Pandemic: Reviewing the Treatment Guidelines and Evaluating Patients' Opinion Qualitatively in a Nigerian Tertiary Hospital.
    (2020) Ajayi, D.M.,; Ogunrinde,T.J.; Gbadebo, S.O.,; Sulaiman, A.O.; Ogundare, T.
    Objectives: The study aimed at reviewing the different measures and strategies put in place globally to ensure successful management of restorative dental patients during the COVID-19 era and to evaluate the knowledge and information on patients' opinion on the impact of the pandemic on their restorative care through a qualitative study design. Methodology: Search for articles on guidelines for restorative care through PUBMED using the keywords COVID-19, guidelines, protocols and restorative care was done. About 42 related articles were downloaded and appraised for necessary information as regards standard protocols in restorative care. The qualitative study involved individual interview of randomly selected 15 patients seeking restorative care that consented to participate in the study. The audiotaped interviews were transcribed verbatim and thematic analysis of data generated was done. Four themes were identified from the data and these included knowledge about COVID-19, view about the infection and infection control, the effects of the lockdown on treatment as well as the fear about contracting the disease. Result: Standard guidelines for different phases (pre, intra and post treatment) were carefully outlined. Fifteen patients, 8 females and 7 males between ages 19 and 72 years with mean age of 39.6 ±17.53 years were interviewed. All the patients had knowledge about COVID-19 infection but the majority were not familiar with the relationship between dentistry and spread of the infection. Repeated visits to dental clinic without being attended to, during the lockdown resulted in patients using self-medication. The fear of contracting the infection in dental clinic was low among the participants and the few that had the fear were those that showed good knowledge about the risk of contracting COVID-19 infection through restorative care. Conclusion: Strict adherence to standard protocols and guidelines should always be followed even after COVID-19 pandemic to ensure continual confidence of patients in the clinicians.