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A Moraitaki-Tsami

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PubMed1996

A clinical survey of periodontal conditions in Greece.

The present study used full-mouth clinical assessments of plaque, calculus, bleeding on probing, probing pocket depth and probing attachment level to evaluate the periodontal conditions in a rural (A) and an urban (B) sample of 25-64 year old Greek adults, comprising 190 and 373 subjects, respectively. 13% of the subjects in sample (A) and 8% in sample (B) were edentulous, while mean values of teeth present in the four age cohorts ranged between 19.8-12.6 and 23.3-18.3, respectively. A poor level of oral hygiene was recorded in both samples with high plaque, calculus and bleeding scores. Deep pocketing was more pronounced in the rural than in the urban sample; between 1.7 and 8.0% of all sites probed showed a PPD of > or = 6 mm and between 20 and 51.2% of the subjects in each age cohort had at least one deep pocket. Corresponding figures for the urban sample was 0.6-4.7% and 15.1-49.2%. However, the prevalence of severe attachment loss was of comparable magnitude in both samples; between 2.8-25.7% of the sites in sample (A) and 2.8-20.6% in sample (B) displayed a PAL of > or = 6 mm, while 32.5-72.1% and 31.8-73.8% of the subjects, respectively, had at least one severely affected site. It was further found that the distribution of advanced disease in the samples was skewed; 14.4% of the subjects in sample (A) and 9.5% in sample (B) accounted for 75% of all deep pockets, while 21.8 and 19.4% of the subjects, respectively, accounted for 75% of all sites with PAL of > or = 6 mm. Multiple regression revealed that male sex and high plaque and bleeding scores had a significant, positive influence to the amount of attachment loss on a subject level.

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PubMed1995

A radiographic survey of periodontal conditions in Greece.

The present study used radiographic assessments to evaluate the pattern of destructive periodontal disease ina rural and an urban sample of 25-64 year old Greek adults. The rural sample (A) comprised 190 subjects and the urban sample (B) 400 subjects. 13% of the subjects in sample A and 8% in sample B were edentulous. Full-mouth intraoral radiographs were obtained from the 503 dentate subjects and were examined with respect to (i) number and type of teeth present, and (ii) alveolar bone level (ABL), i.e., the distance between the cementoenamel junction and the alveolar bone crest at the approximal tooth surfaces. The results revealed that alveolar bone loss was ubiquitous in both samples. Pronounced bone loss, however, (i.e., a subject mean ABL of > or = 6 mm) affected 18% (sample A) and 8% (sample B) of the individuals. Although an ABL of > or = 6 mm was scored at 7.2 sites/subject in sample A and at 4.5 sites/subject in sample B, more than 10 such sites were found in 23% (A) and 11% (B) of the examined subjects. 25% of the subjects in the rural sample (A) and 12% in the urban sample (B) accounted for 75% of the total number of tooth sites with pronounced bone loss. Multiple regression revealed that age and number of remaining teeth were the parameters most strongly correlated with the amount of bone loss on both the individual subject and the tooth site level. The present findings (i) demonstrated a high prevalence and severity of destructive periodontal disease in these 2 samples. and (ii) confirmed the skewed distribution of advanced disease in the population.

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PubMed1993

Comparative estimation of periodontal conditions by means of different index systems.

The aim of the present study was to compare epidemiological data of periodontal disease obtained from a sample of adults by means of different, commonly employed, partial and full-mouth index systems, in order to explore the amount of discrepancy attributed to the methodology per se. 169 dentate subjects, aged 25-64 years, were subjected to a clinical examination, including circumferential probing assessments of pocket depth (PPD) and attachment level (PAL) at all teeth present. The individual mean % of tooth sites with PPD of > or = 6 mm and the % of subjects exhibiting at least one such deep pocket were calculated based on (i) full-mouth data, (ii) data derived from the buccal and mesial surfaces from 1 randomly selected upper and 1 lower quadrant, (iii) probing assessments at the 6 "Ramfjord teeth", (iv) the full-mouth community periodontal index for treatment needs (CPITN), and (v) the partial CPITN based on 10 index teeth. The PAL data were analyzed by means of 3 versions of the extent and severity index, 1 generated by full-mouth assessments and 2 by partial assessments based on 28 and 10 tooth sites, respectively. In the entire sample, the individual mean % of sites with PPD of > or = 6 mm generated by the different systems ranged between 5.0 and 4.2 sites/subject. By full-mouth CPITN scorings, an average of 1.0 score-4 sextants/subject was recorded, while the partial CPITN generated a corresponding value of 0.8 score-4 sextants/subject.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

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PubMed1989

[Evaluation of dental behaviour in adults with an advanced level of education in Athens].

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the dental health behaviour in adults of advanced education. Ninety adults, aged 31-60, men and women were randomly selected from a population of advanced education. All the subjects had a thorough oral examination in order to record their dental health indices. Before the examination each participant was interviewed personally for determining, among others, their knowledge about oral health in general and more specifically about prevention of oral diseases. Their responses were correlated with the dental health indices that were determined by the dental examination. The results of the study indicate that this segment of the population demonstrates better oral health status than other population groups of the same age in Greece; the values of the restorative treatment indices were especially very high. From their responses it was found that although their theoretical knowledge on general dental health was satisfactory their information on prevention of oral disease was very limited. It is therefore concluded that although the level of education of adult population correlates well with the level of dental care received, an effective control of oral disease could be realised only if prevention procedures and dental health education is initiated early in life.

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