519 - Perceived Time Requirements for Treatment of the ASA I/II Pediatric Dental Patient in an Operating Room Setting

During and following the COVID-19 pandemic, the operating room (OR) access for full mouth dental rehabilitations across the nation was limited. Scheduling preference has been given to those patients with tertiary medical needs, or ASA III/ASA IV status. This has increased the waiting time for healthy (ASA I and II) patients from weeks to months. Due to the backlog of OR cases following the pandemic, it was imperative to determine how accurate providers were in estimating time requirements for treating healthy pediatric patients in an operating room setting. A retrospective chart review on patients treated for full mouth dental rehabilitation at Children’s Medical Center Pavilion Surgery Center between January 2019-December 2019 was conducted. Practitioners who treated 10 or more patients were included. 2843 of 3117 cases met the inclusion criteria and 60% or 10 cases for each dentist were reviewed yielding 1723 cases. Requested time of procedure was compared to actual procedure time. Data was stratified by years of practitioner experience. Providers with ≤5years, 6-10 years, and ≥11 years of experience correctly predicted the time needed in 36%, 39.6%, and 37.5% respectively. This study, with the limited dataset did not find a correlation between years of experience and predictability of procedure case duration. Years of experience did not significantly change the accuracy of time needed to complete a FMDR case.