Are drug-related dental management cautions in Lexicomp Online for Dentistry evidence-based? A systematic review of the literature

OBJECTIVES: Drug reference databases provide information on potential drug-related medical complications in a dental patient. It is important that database entries and recommendations are supported by evidence-based original studies focused on drug-related dental management complications. The aim of this study was to review and identify database drug categories associated with evidence-based drug-related medical complications during dental treatment.

DATA SOURCES: Relevant publications on adverse drug reactions and dental management complications were thoroughly reviewed from the literature published between July 1975 and July 2019.

METHOD AND MATERIALS: The drug reference database "Lexicomp Online for Dentistry" was reviewed to identify medications associated with the highest propensity to trigger drug-related dental management complications, and these were correlated with published original studies in PubMed, Embase, and Scopus databases that associated drug actions with dental treatment complications.

RESULTS: Fifty-four publications (1.2% of all full-text articles) reported original studies that directly tested drug associations with dental management complications. The cautions in the drug reference database on drug-related dental treatment mainly focused on local anesthetic precaution (P < .001), xerostomia (P < .001), bleeding (P < .001), and a combination of xerostomia and bleeding (P < .001). Antipsychotics/antidepressants were mostly associated with local anesthetic complications (80.95%), xerostomia (81.93%), and a combination of xerostomia and bleeding (22.89%). Bleeding complication was associated with anticoagulants (80.00%) and cancer chemotherapeutic agents (59.21%).

CONCLUSIONS: Similarities exist within and across different drug categories in the database entries on drug-related medical complications in a dental patient. There were a relatively limited number of publications that directly tested the association between drug-related medical complications and dental therapies.

CLINICAL RELEVANCE: The most common drug cautions during dental treatment reported in Lexicomp Online for Dentistry were limited to drug-drug interactions with local anesthetic actions, excessive bleeding, xerostomia, or a combination of any of these. These recommendations were supported by limited evidence-based studies.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2019

Erschienen:

2019

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:50

Enthalten in:

Quintessence international (Berlin, Germany : 1985) - 50(2019), 9 vom: 08., Seite 754-761

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Qadeer, Ayesha [VerfasserIn]
Omolehinwa, Temitope T [VerfasserIn]
Mupparapu, Mel [VerfasserIn]
Akintoye, Sunday O [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Anticoagulants
Bleeding
Dental treatment planning
Drug effects
Journal Article
Medical complications
Systematic Review
Xerostomia

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Date Completed 26.11.2019

Date Revised 04.05.2021

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.3290/j.qi.a43090

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM300912889