Original scientific paper
The oral health status and the prosthetic therapy required in the examinees of postipubertal age
Zvonimir Kosovel
; School of Dental Medicine, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Tomislav Ivaniš
; School of Dental Medicine, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Adnan Ćatović
; School of Dental Medicine, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The study was carried out in 5.665 first-year students at the Zagreb University, in order to establish the consequential oral health status and the degree of hindrance to the masticatory system due to caries and periodontopathies, as well as the usual, more or less successfully performed stomatological therapy. Attention was especially focused on the extension of the required prosthetic therapy of the subjects organs of mastication. The results obtained on the total frequency of DMF of 11.71 per a subject showed the impairments of the masticatory system to be about 30% of those expected at this age. This study has confirmed the need of preventive and therapeutic programs to be conducted already during childhood, whereas in the student population the need of prosthetic interventions is particularly
emphasized.
Keywords
Students; oral health; prosthetic therapy
Hrčak ID:
105164
URI
Publication date:
15.6.1986.
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