Journal of Dental Anesthesia and Pain Medicine

  • 제23권2호
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  • Pages.101-110
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  • 2023
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  • 2383-9309(pISSN)
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  • 2383-9317(eISSN)
대한치과마취과학회 (The Korean Dental Society of Anesthsiology)
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Analysis of the annual changes in dental institutions that claimed dental sedatives in Korea and the types of sedatives using health care big data

  • Minjae Lee (Department of Dental Anesthesiology, School of Dentistry, Seoul National University) ;
  • Seong In Chi (Department of Pediatric Dentistry, Dankook University Sejong Dental Hospital) ;
  • Hyuk Kim (Department of Dental Anesthesiology, School of Dentistry, Seoul National University) ;
  • Kwang-Suk Seo (Department of Dental Anesthesiology, School of Dentistry, Seoul National University)
  • 투고 : 2023.02.25
  • 심사 : 2023.03.26
  • 발행 : 2023.04.01
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Background: Dentists make various efforts to reduce patients' anxiety and fear associated with dental treatment. Dental sedation is an advanced method that dentists can perform to reduce patients' anxiety and fear and provide effective dental treatment. However, dental sedation is different from general dental treatment and requires separate learning, and if done incorrectly, can lead to serious complications. Therefore, sedation is performed by a limited number of dentists who have received specific training. This study aimed to investigate the proportion of dentists who practice sedation and the main sedatives they use in the context of the Republic of Korea. Methods: We used the customized health information data provided by the Korean National Health Insurance. We investigated the number of dental hospitals or clinics that claimed insurance for eight main sedatives commonly used in dental sedation from January, 2007 to September, 2019 at the Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service. We also identified the changes in the number of dental medical institutions by region and year and analyzed the number and proportion of dental medical institutions prescribing each sedative. Results: In 2007, 302 dental hospitals prescribed sedatives, and the number increased to 613 in 2019. In 2007, approximately 2.18% of the total 13,796 dental institutions prescribed sedatives, increasing to 3.31% in 2019. In 2007, 168 institutions (55.6%) prescribed N2O alone, and in 2019, 510 institutions (83.1%) made claims for it. In 2007, 76 (25.1%) hospitals made claims for chloral hydrate, but the number gradually decreased, with only 29 hospitals (4.7%) prescribing it in 2019. Hospitals that prescribed a combination of N2O, chloral hydrate, and hydroxyzine increased from 27 (8.9%) in 2007 to 51 (9%) in 2017 but decreased to 38 (6.1%) in 2019. The use of a combination of N2O and midazolam increased from 20 hospitals (6.6%) in 2007 to 51 hospitals (8.3%) in 2019. Conclusion: While there is a critical limitation to the investigation of dental hospitals performing sedation using insurance claims data, namely exclusion of dental clinics providing non-insured treatments, we found that in 2019, approximately 3.31% of the dental clinics were practicing sedation and that N2O was the most commonly prescribed sedative.

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