FoI Number
2023-693
Subject
Dental Abscesses
Date Received
08/02/2024
Request and Response
  1. In the past five years, how many patients in your health board have been admitted for the treatment of dental abscesses?

Could this be broken down by year?

NHS Shetland uses the ICD 10 coding system. Figures provided are for the number of inpatients where ICD 10 codes K04.6 or K04.7 were listed as the Main Condition.

Year

Patients

2019

3

2020

5

2021

6

2022

2

2023

3