1. Prevalence of dental caries and periodontal status among Down’s syndrome population in Riyadh City
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Essa Ali Essa Hattan, Omar Saud Alqutaym, Abdul Aziz Maree Alqahtani, Ahmed Mohammed Alqarni, Refdan Obeid Alqahtani, and Khalid Gufran
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Down syndrome ,Plaque index ,Decayed teeth ,Population ,lcsh:Analytical chemistry ,Dentistry ,lcsh:RS1-441 ,Bioengineering ,Physical examination ,General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology ,lcsh:Pharmacy and materia medica ,03 medical and health sciences ,symbols.namesake ,0302 clinical medicine ,DMFT ,Down’s syndrome ,plaque index ,Medicine ,030212 general & internal medicine ,General Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics ,education ,Fisher's exact test ,education.field_of_study ,S syndrome ,lcsh:QD71-142 ,medicine.diagnostic_test ,business.industry ,030206 dentistry ,medicine.disease ,Gingival index ,stomatognathic diseases ,gingival index ,symbols ,Original Article ,business - Abstract
Aim: Aim of the present study was to evaluate the prevalence of dental caries and periodontal status among Down’s syndrome population in Riyadh City. Materials and Methods: A total of 81 male Down’s syndrome subjects were examined in this study. All subjects were recruited from the Saudi Center for Down Syndrome, Riyadh. Clinical examination was carried out by a single precalibrated examiner. Dental caries experience was counted according to the DMFT (decayed, missing, and filled teeth) indexes. Periodontal status was evaluated by using plaque and gingival indexes. Statistical analysis was performed using SPSS 19 version. Consequently, Pearson chi-square test and Fisher exact test was used to calculate p-value for parametric variables. Results: In this study 11.1% of the subjects were not having any decayed teeth, 39.5% were not having any missing teeth, and 55.6% were not having any filled teeth. In plaque index, maximum number of subjects in all the age group were in the fair group, and there was a highly significant (P value
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- 2019