Clinical behavior of odontogenic facial cellulitis: "General Calixto García" University Hospital

Authors

  • Denia Morales Navarro Hospital General Calixto García. La Habana.

Keywords:

Odontogenic facial cellulitis, dental infection, facial sepsis, cervicofacial infection

Abstract

Dental infections involved many persons at worldwide level, being in many occasions avoidable, thus, a cross-sectional, descriptive and observational study was conducted to characterize the odontogenic facial cellulitis course in patients admitted in "General Calixto García" University Hospital. Sample included 75 patients with symptoms and signs of cellulitis underwent a meticulous intraoral and extraoral regional and general physical examination, where male sex was the more involved with 42 patients and the age group of 35-39 years with 35 patients. The menton external superficial anatomical region includes 36 cases, and of this kind but the internal one, the inferior vestibular sulcus had 51 cases. From the deep anatomical regions, the submandibular one had 51 cases for a 68.0 % with predominance of necrotizing dental pulp and the radicular debris as main pathogenic mechanisms. Clinical diagnosis of moderate odontogenic facial cellulitis was significant with 40 patients (53.3 %). Data were showed in statistical tables and charts and as abstract measure we used the percentage of qualitative variables.

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Published

2009-10-16

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Morales Navarro D. Clinical behavior of odontogenic facial cellulitis: "General Calixto García" University Hospital. Rev Cubana Estomatol [Internet]. 2009 Oct. 16 [cited 2025 Mar. 13];46(4):91-8. Available from: https://revestomatologia.sld.cu/index.php/est/article/view/2638

Issue

Vol. 46 No. 4 (2009): OCT- DEC

Section

Research Article

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