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Prevalence of Tooth Loss Among Chronic Periodontitis Patients - A Retrospective Study
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KARTHIKEYAN MURTHYKUMAR, DR.ARVINA RAJASEKAR, DR.GURUMOORTHY KAARTHIKEYAN
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Periodontitis is a chronic inflammatory, multifactorial disease which results in destruction of supporting tissue and bone thereby resulting in loosening of the tooth. Tooth loss is one of the major oral issues faced by elderly patients. Thus the present aimed to investigate the prevalence of tooth loss among chronic periodontitis patients. Retrospective data collection was conducted from June 2019 to March 2020 among 93 chronic periodontitis patients based on the record management system software to analyse the most frequent missing tooth at the time of first visit. Frequency of maxillary anterior, maxillary posterior, mandibular anterior and mandibular posterior tooth loss was assessed in the study.Among the frequency distribution the mandibular anterior tooth loss was most common among chronic periodontitis with 17%, whereas maxillary anterior tooth loss was 10%. Incase of posterior tooth loss the results were almost similar with 15% of maxillary posterior tooth loss and 14% in case of mandibular tooth loss.Also the present study results showed that there is no significant association between sex and maxillary anterior, mandibular anterior, maxillary posterior and mandibular posterior tooth loss (p>0.005). The present study showed that mandibular anterior tooth loss was most frequent among chronic periodontitis patients.
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Periodontitis, Tooth loss, Edentulism, Tooth Mobility
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https://doi.org/10.31838/ijpr/2020.SP2.239
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