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Interdisciplinary collaboration during the treatment of orthodontic patients

Aim of the study: The objective of the research is to examine the frequency of interdisciplinary collaboration of orthodontists and other dental specialists as well as to determine which specialty is mostly collaborated with during the therapeutic process. Material and methods: The data, that was collected and analyzed, were 586 orthopantomograms (OPGs). The patients were both male and female from 10 to 42 years old. The corpus was collected randomly during March and April of the academic year 2015/2016. After gathering the OPGs, they were analyzed in terms of whether there was potential need for interdisciplinary collaboration with different specialist branches or not. The data were analyzed using the software „MS Excell“. Results: The results showed that out of 586 OPGs, 98 patients (16.72%) needed interdisciplinary collaboration. Out of these 98 OPGs most of them, i.e. 47, 96% of cases needed collaboration with oral surgeon, after that comes prosthodontist with 25, 51%, then restorative dentist with 14, 29%, and last periodontologist with 12, 24% of cases. As oral surgery was the most frequently collaborated branch, these cases were analyzed in more depth. Conclusion: The results and literature overview corroborate the hypothesis that there is frequent need for interdisciplinary collaboration during the treatment of orthodontic patients. The results show that an oral surgeon is the most collaborated specialist during the therapeutic process. Further research with a larger sample and separation of patients by age and gender is necessary in order to obtain a full overview of the problems of interdisciplinary collaboration in orthodontics .

dental medicine ; interdisciplinary collaboration ; orthodontics

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