Key result
Dental anaesthesia links to a mortality rate of ~3 deaths per million patients.
Why the study?
What is the mortality rate associated with dental anaesthesia?
What is the mortality rate associated with dental anaesthesia?
Death following general anaesthesia in dentistry is extremely rare (1 in 327,684) and mostly occurs in patients with compromised health conditions.
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Supports low mortality with dental anaesthesia; leaves open need for prospective safety monitoring in current practice.
Hamed Mortazavi (2017) conducted a review in Dental procedures requiring anaesthesia (n=71,435,282). Dental anaesthesia was evaluated on Death associated with dental procedures. Dental anaesthesia was associated with a mortality rate of 3 deaths per 1,000,000 persons (218 deaths out of 71,435,282 patients), which has halved since 1955.
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