Assessment of Inflammatory Scores in Severity Prediction for Elderly Patients with Odontogenic Infections.

They found that the severity of the infection, the number of spaces involved, trismus, dysphagia, and dyspnea were critical in predicting both the length of hospital stay and the necessity for re-exploration, with severity and the number of spaces affected both showing highly significant impacts ( p < 0.001).

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