Περίληψη:
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 greater than or equal to 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
greater than or equal to 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
greater than or equal to 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.
Συγγραφείς:
AnagnouVareltzides, A
DiamantiKipioti, A
Afentoulidis, N and
MoraitakiTsami, A
Lindhe, J
Mitsis, F
Papapanou, PN
