Basic and patient-oriented researchNeurosensory Disturbances of the Inferior Alveolar Nerve: A Retrospective Study of Complaints in a 10-Year Period
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Materials and Methods
An epidemiologic investigation was conducted by a French insurance company for a 10-year period (1988–1997). Occasionally, a few years had passed between the injury and the claim. Furthermore, the insurance company required a lapse of a minimum of 2 years after the nerve damage before the patient was eligible for consideration for compensation.
A total of 157,292 contracts of insurance were analyzed during this period. Injury claims for NSD related to 3 different procedures were collected and
Results
During the 10-year period of our investigation, 382 complaints related to NSDs were recorded in the 3 specific dental procedures (Table 1), of which 75 were permanent nerve injuries.
We noticed the most important number of claims in the SP group (n = 235) with the prevalence of third molar removal (n = 156), which accounts for 66.4% of NSDs of this group and the low number of NSDs (12 cases) in the IP procedure. The separate analysis of transient and permanent NSD in the 3 procedures underlines
Discussion
The present study was primarily designed to examine the prevalence of the claims for NSDs as a result of dental treatment.
In this study, information was collected by means of a 10-year follow-up retrospective analysis of patients’ complaints to the practitioners’ insurance company. Only the judged files were included in the survey. Claims concerning NSD were taken into account by the insurance companies in the weeks following the dental procedures to allow compensation in cases of partial and
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