Patients' views of oral day surgery

Day case surgery is an expanding area of health care and is an invaluable method of treating patients in many aspects of oral surgical practice. Two questionnaires were used to sample the opinions of 200 patients who had undergone care in a 3-month period. A total of 80% of patients rated their overall experience of oral day surgery as excellent or good. Less disruption to routine was the most common perceived advantage of oral day surgery (35% of patients). Providing patients are carefully selected, much of oral surgery previously undertaken on an in-patient basis may now be carried out as a day case.