Prevalence of dental malocclusion and its gender distribution among dental students at Kabul university of medical science

Abstract

The current study aims to provide quantitative and qualitative information about the prevalence of dental malocclusions among dental students of Kabul University of Medical Sciences (KUMS) in the orthodontics department of Ali Abad Teaching Dental Clinic that evaluates the relationship of malocclusion between gender and the major causes of malocclusion in society among genders and the tendency of the community toward the treatment of dentoalveolar anomalies. This study was a cross-sectional survey that was done randomly among 133 students, 68 male (51.12%) and 65 female (48.87%), in an age range of 18–25 years old at Kabul University of Medical Sciences, Ali Abad teaching dental clinic faculty of dentistry. show the dental malocclusion classes due to “angle" classification in females in Class I (53.48%), Class II (21.4%), and Class III (23.07%), while in males in Class I (48.33%), Class II (6.66%), and Class III (43.33%). The prevalence rate of crowding was 33% in males and 43% in females. It has been studied and analyzed separately that the most common oral problems in females were dental caries (53.84%). According to our survey (65 female participants), no one had periodontitis, while in males, plaque was at a rate of 28.97%, and the least common was gingivitis (6%), respectively. The occurrence of dental trauma in boys and heredity in girls may be the most important factors for dental malocclusion. Girls were more interested in orthodontic treatments, which may be because they pay more attention to beauty than boys. Moreover, crowding had the highest rate among participants, followed by deep, open bites and edge-to-edge bites.