Introdution: Dental anomalies are an important category of dental morphologic variations. Their incidence is different between many populations. This study aimed to determine the frequency of dental anomalies and dental health index in patients referred to department of Oral Medicine of Hamadan dental faculty in 2014
Methods: In this descriptive cross sectinal study 772 patients referred to department of oral medicine were examined for dental anomalies and biographic information, systemic diseases , receiving drugs and DMFT index (Decay , Missing, Filling Teeth) were recorded in their charts. Data were analyzed with SPSS 16 software using descreptive , chi square, t test and one-way ANOVA . P value lower than 5% was considered as significant.
Results Out of 772 patients 218 (28.2%) were males and 554 (71.8%) were females and their mean age was 32.3
. 70% of patients showed at least one dental anomaly. Attrition (40.2%), flourosis (20.3%), accessory cusps (15.7%), tooth discoloration (14.4%) and hypodontia (3.2%) had high frequency anomalies observed in patients. The mean of patients DMFT was 14.09
5.78.
Conclusion: According to results of this study frequency of acquired dental anomalies was relatively common and dental health index was low in studied population, therefore dentists continious education and oral health education for diagnose and prevention of possible problem for dentist and society seems to be necessary.
Type of Study:
Original article |
Subject:
Dental Received: 2017/01/18 | Accepted: 2017/02/4 | Published: 2018/08/14