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Abstract
Objective: to investigate the prevalence of tooth loss and dental restorations among Palestinian adults in Gaza, and to provide data about dental awareness level.
Methods: Descriptive statistics were used to explore and summarize dentition status. Stratified random cluster-sampling method was used to enrol adult subjects aged 30 to 44, 45 to 59, 60 to >80 years in 5 provinces of Gaza. The status of tooth loss and dental restorations were investigated. SPSS-22 software was used for statistical analysis
Results: The current results exhibited a description for sample size of 388 patients. Concerning the dentition status, 29.9% of the patients had complete dentition, 68.3% had partially edentulous and 1.8% had complete edentulous. In the same line, statistical higher proportion reported with males compared to females. Regarding the demographic variable, the patients from Mid-zone showed a significantly higher proportion of complete dentition than other provinces. Females tend to replace their missing teeth more than males (37.0% vs 26.2%). Moreover, the patients with prosthetic restoration exhibited significant higher proportion in the Mid-zone (44.9%) compared to the other provinces. In parallel, the patients with fixed prosthesis have the highest percentage (15.5%) than any other type of replacement. Regarding the educational status, the educated participants showed a higher percentage of replacement than non-educated subjects (41.0%).
Conclusion: Status of tooth loss and prosthetic restoration among adults in Gaza were recorded in this survey, the results showed that dental caries is the first cause behind the extraction of teeth. Income, age, education, social status, functional status and occupation are important factors which play a vital role in replacement of missing teeth. More efforts are needed to improve oral health promotion and dental awareness level.
Key words: Tooth loss, restorations, dental awareness
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