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Prevalence of malocclusion in mentally, physically, auditory and visually handicapped patients in Sammawa City aged (6-16) years old | ||
| Journal of baghdad college of dentistry | ||
| Article 1, Volume 23, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 107-111 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Fakhri Abid Ali; Hayder S. Al-Atabi | ||
| Abstract | ||
| ABSTRACTBackground: There has been an increasing concern by the dental profession regarding the problem of providing oralhealth care to handicapped patients. These groups need dental treatment of the highest standard as part of theirgeneral care to enable them to realize their maximum level of functioning and normalizing their life. The aim of thisstudy was to determine the prevalence of malocclusion in groups of handicapped patients and comparing withthose of healthy individuals.Materials and methods: This study was conducted on (267) handicapped patients attending special institutes, somehouses and (80) control group in Sammawa city which lies 300 km south of Baghdad, were clinically evaluated todetermine the prevalence of various orthodontic anomalies. Four groups of mentally, physically, auditory and visuallyhandicapped patients from (6-16) years old were studied with respect to sagittal occlusion according to Angle'sclassification, overjet, overbite, anterior crossbite , posterior crossbite ,scissorsbite, spacing and crowding.Results: The mentally handicapped group had high prevalence of Angle's class III sagittal occlusion, reversed overjet,anterior openbite, posterior crossbite, scissorsbite, spacing and crowding. The physically handicapped group showeda high prevalence of class III sagittal occlusion, reversed overjet and anterior openbite, posterior crossbite, spacingand crowding. The auditory and visually handicapped groups showed only higher frequencies of crowding.Conclusion: The Prevalence of malocclusion in mentally handicapped group (89.4%) had very highly significantdifference when compared with control group (71.3%), while other groups had no significant difference.Key words: Prevalence of malocclusion; handicapped patients. (J Bagh Coll Dentistry 2011;23(1):107-111). | ||
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