PREVALENCE OF DENTAL CARIES

Abstract

Objective: Prevalence of dental caries among patients attended Isra Dental CollegeOPD. Setting/ Methodology: A total of 1037 patients with dental carries were recruited from theoutpatient clinic of the Department of Dentistry Isra University Hospital, Hyderabad. All 1037patients who were affected by Dental caries were included in the analysis. Research period wasfrom January 2013 to December 2013. Local ethical committee approval was obtained before thetrial started from the local research ethical committee, Isra University Hospital and all patientsgave written informed consent. Written information about the study was given to each patientbefore attending the clinic. All participants of the study had undergone careful clinical evaluationincluding a full medical history and clinical examination to confirm the diagnosis of dental caries.Determination of whether the patient fulfils the inclusion / exclusion criteria; written, witnessedinformed consent was obtained and a copy given to the patient. They were assured that they canwithdraw from the study, at any time, without being required to state a reason and this would notaffect their future management. Duration: January to December 2013. Sample Size: Atconfidence level 1 and precision 0.1; calculated sample size was 1037. Study Design: CrossSectional Study. Sampling Technique: Non-Probability Sampling Technique. InclusionCriteria: Patients of ages 11-70 years participated as a study inhabitants were included.Exclusion Criteria: Chronic debilitating disease (carcinoma, tuberculosis and diabetes).Prolong steroid therapy (more than one month). BMI less than 18 (Before gathering informationBMI was computed from several patients by scaling via height and weight scale). Results: Themean age of the participants was 28 years and ranged between 0 and 60 years; the majority of theparticipants were Male, 60% (n=600), while 40% (n=400) were female. The entire population(n=1000) was invited to participate in the quality evaluation of dental restorations in the hospital.However, only those patients who had been willing to participate in the evaluation were included.As mentioned above, a total of 1000 out of 1037 patients had agreed in this specific evaluation. Atooth was recorded as “decayed” if it was presented with deteriorated and discolored conditionor it had a presentably softened floor or created an ecological imbalance in the equilibriumbetween tooth, minerals and oral bio-films (plaque). The result of conducted study depicts thatMean DMFT is higher in males i.e 0.99 and in females its 1. The present study confirmed thefindings comparing to previous studies by stating that DMFT keeps on increasing as the ageincreases. The mean DMFT in age 11-20 is 0.005, 21-40 is 0.003 and 40-60 is 0.001. However, thefindings of the current study cannot be generalized because selective nature of inhabitants.Conclusions: Therefore it’s the responsibility of family dentist to educate patients aboutavailable treatment options and their expected outcomes. The research has evaluated the dentalcaries risk profile in the adult population and the caries-related factors which can contribute to therisk which were identified. The core reason for this unacceptable rating of such restorations wasrecurrent level of dental caries.