EXTRACTION OF PERMANENT TEETH: A CORRELATION BETWEEN REASONS OF EXTRACTION WITH EDUCATION STATUS & ETHNICITY

Authors

  • Aasim Masaood Department of Preventive and Community Dentistry KIDS, Kohat.
  • Zaheer Babar Department of Anatomy KIDS, Kohat.
  • Ayesha Sadaf Department of Periodontology Baqai Dental College, BMU.
  • Faisal Rehan Department of Dentistry University of Sydney Australia.
  • Sohail Memon Department of Forensic Medicine Khyber Medical College, Peshawar.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.33279/jkcd.v8i4.567

Keywords:

Tooth extraction (MeSH), Oral Surgery (MeSH), Race ethnicity (MeSH)

Abstract

Objectives:To determine the frequency of reasons for extraction of permanent teeth and correlate it with educational status and ethnicity of patients reported in private dental clinics.
Materials & Methods:Cross-sectional descriptive study that includes 368 patients, who visited 5 different private clinics in Karachi from March 2016 to August 2017, of both genders, above 12 years of age, having permanent dentition was included in the study. While subjects with tooth fracture caused by trauma and extraction due to radio therapy or any other cause were excluded.
WHO calculator was used to calculate sample size which was 368. Pre designed Proforma was used for collection of data which was later analyzed using SPSS version 21.0 Mean ± standard deviation was calculated for quantitative variables like age. Frequency and Percentage was calculated for categorical variables.
Results:Out of total 368 samples, 168(45.7%) were males and 200(54.3%) were females with mean age of 42.10±16.43 years. Frequency of Dental caries proved to be the most common reason for extraction with 60.3%, followed by periodontal disease 12.5%, prosthetic purpose 10.3% and other reasons. In ethnicity maximum people whose visiting private clinics were Urdu speakers (78.3%) followed by punjabi (10.3%) and then Sindhi (4.9%) while in education many were graduates followed by intermediate and then other educational statuses. Reasons for extraction at different education levels (none, primary, middle, matric, inter, graduate and postgraduate) were not statistically significant (P=0.063). Similarly Ethnicity (Urdu speakers, Pashtun, Sindhi, Baloch, Punjabi & Others) has no correlation with reasons for extraction (P=0.075).
Conclusion:Females with age above 35 years and below 50 years had maximum reasons for extraction. Level of education had no significance with reasons for extraction which is same in case with Ethnicity concluding no relationship between the two. Dental caries (decay because of all reason) was the leading cause of extraction followed by reason of periodontal reasons.

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Published

2018-12-31

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Masaood, A. ., Zaheer Babar, Ayesha Sadaf, Faisal Rehan, & Sohail Memon. (2018). EXTRACTION OF PERMANENT TEETH: A CORRELATION BETWEEN REASONS OF EXTRACTION WITH EDUCATION STATUS & ETHNICITY . JOURNAL OF KHYBER COLLEGE OF DENTISTRY, 8(4), 40–45. https://doi.org/10.33279/jkcd.v8i4.567

Issue

Vol. 8 No. 4 (2018): Journal of Khyber College of Dentistry

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