Oral Findings in a Sample Collected From a Public Clinic in Baghdad

Abstract

This study was conducted on (716) subjects attending the dental department in one
of the public clinics in Baghdad.
Information was collected from all subjects regarding their age, sex and chief
compliant at the time of presentation. This was followed by clinical examination.
Chief complaint of the majority of patients was toothache (48.5%) and carious
teeth without pain (15.5%). The need to extract teeth was seen in (8.4%), problems
associated with tooth loss (6.8%), bleeding gum (5.2%), checkup 4.2% , scaling and
polishing (3.2%) , mal aligned teeth (2.5%) , unidentified oral pain (2.4%) fractured
anterior teeth (2.2%) and bad odour (1.1%).
Total number of female was greater than males. The majority of patients examined
were in need of some type of treatment, which reflects the high prevalence of oral
disease in this population