Definition of Case history: The collection of data concerning an individual, their family, and environment, including the medical history, dental history and any other information that may be useful in analyzing and diagnosing the condition or for instructional or research purposes.
This includes all the general information of the Patient which can potentially be helpful in diagnosing any condition which the patient comes to you for. There are many options in Case History which need to be known to not just get a proper diagnosis but also helps in determining a treatment plan and decide the prognosis of the treatment being done.
General Information Includes:
- Name
- Age
- Sex
- Occupation
- Address
- Region
Case history in Dentistry
1) NAME:
There are many advantages by the name, the advantages are given below:
Psychological Benefit: It gives a great psychological benefit to the doctor as the patient always likes to be called by his name.
Improves Rapport: It improves personal rapport between the patient and the medical practitioner, mainly helpful in children when called by their short name they respond more than called by their full name.
Specific Identification: It helps in specific identification of the patient on religious, race, Ethnic or Geographic distribution.
2) AGE:
Many diseases show predilection towards Age, Based on the disease predilection of age patients are divided into:
- Neonatal: At Birth
- 1-3 Yrs: Infancy
- 4-14 Yrs: Child
- 15-20 Yrs: Young Adults
- 21-40 Yrs: Adults
- 40-50 Yrs: Post Adolescent
- Above 50 Yrs: Old Age
- Youngs Law: Child Age / Age+12 X Adult Dose
- Clark’s Law: Child age at next Birthday / 24 X Adult Dose
- Dilling Law: Age X Adult Dose / 20
- Iron Deficiency Anemia
- Pleomorphic Adenoma
- Sjogrens Syndrome
- Adeno Ameloblastome
- Myasthenia Gravis
- Sickle Cell Anemia
- Caries
- Thyroid Diseases
- Juvenile Periodontitis
- Peripheral Ossifying Fibroma
- Naso Alveolar Cyst
- Attrition
- Caries in Decidious Teeth
- Carcinoma in Situ
- Carcinoma of the buccal mucosa
- Leuplokia
- Keratoacanthoma
- Basal Cell Carcinoma
- Verrucous Carcinoma
- Adenoid cystic Squamous cell carcinoma
- Liposarcoma
- Hodgkins Disease
- Multiple Myeloma
- Chondrosarcoma
- Herpes Simplex
- Ewings Sarcoma
- Ameloblastic fibro Odontoma
- Basal cell Adenoma
- Esthetic Needs whole treating.
- Sexual Abuse or Exploitation
- Dosage of Drugs
- Females require low dosage of drugs than the Males as their Body weight is less when comapred to the males.
- Extraordinary care should be taken while prescribing medicines to patients who are in Mensuration, Pregnancy, Lactation.
- Drugs given during pregnancy could affect the Fetus directly.
- Long term use of Anti Hypertensive Drugs can lead to Impotency in Males.
- Gynecomastia may be caused in males due to some medications like Digitalis, Ketoconazole, Chlorpromazine. . . etc
- Tuberculosis: Tobacco factory workers
- Pulmonary diseases: People working in Acetic acid plants.
- Contact Dermatitis.
- Lead Poisoning.
- Asbestos Poisoning- Mesothelioma
- Radiation sickness.
- Nail Bed infection in Radiographers and Dark Room Assistants.
- Filariasis common in Orissa
- Leprosy common in West Bengal
- Carcinoma of the Palate common in Srikakulam A.P
- Buccal Carcinoma common in Tamilnadu
- Sleeping Sickness in South Africans
- Kangri Cancer in Kashmiris
- Anemia and Malnutrition severe in Rural Areas.
6) RELIGIOUS:
There are not many religion specific dental conditions which have been researched. The Dental problems might relate to an specific food habits of a particular religion but in general Religion does not play a major role in Dental Case History.
About The Author
Varun Pandula
I am Varun, a Dentist from Hyderabad, India trying my bit to help everyone understand Dental problems and treatments and to make Dental Education simplified for Dental Students and Dental fraternity. If you have any doubts feel free to contact me or comment in the post, thanks for visiting.
It’s so useful, thanks a lot.
thanks a lot.i was looking for these informations in the books for quite a lot time……it came really use full i was preparing for a surprise test.
thanx its very basic information
Hye dude, this is a freaking good for dentist and other health practitioners… But i urge you put importance of religion…..
wow! you have made my studies easy! thankyu very much. more books lack this info. God bless you
Thank u so much sir…
Was very useful to clearly know the basics….
what is importance of regilious?
I hope you are asking about – Religion. In some cases there are certain conditions which are religion specific and knowing the religion of the patient can help in Diagnosis of such cases.
thank you sir……but why its called case history ?? neither any other name??
It is also called as patient history.
Thank you for the website, it makes me to learn new this about my patients. But it left me in suspense. it never teach me about why religion was reflected on the record in taking patients identities.
Which diseases are religion related??
This has really helped me in knowing the importance of noting down Demography
This is bcz.. for eg
Muslims do certain rituals when they arr born…so penile cabcers are less common in muslims…
In Nepal certain communties like Tharus are prone to colour blindness…
Can you please provide the full article for reference