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The Frequency of Systemic Diseases in Patients Refer to Oral Medicine Department, Qazvin University of Medical Sciences from 2009 to 2010


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Background: Systemic diseases have a direct effect on dental tissues and the levels of tolerance for dental interventions. The purpose of this study is the studding of Prevalence of systemic diseases and their relationship with oral diseases. Materials and methods: In this cross-sectional study, all available files in the archive of Qazvin Dental School were evaluated by census from 2009 to 2010. For Descriptive analysis of data, statistical parameters such as mean, standard deviation and range were used. Χ2 correlation and One Sample T test were used for estimation of correlation between characters and significance difference of individuals in each character respectively. Results: From 2083 patient records reviewed, males were 63 percent and females were 37 percent (mean age 55 ± 11 years). Approximately 81 percent of people had diploma and lower diploma degree. Age range 20-49 years, 83.3 percent (n = 1736) subjects were included. 67.5% of those were without medical history and other subjects 32.5% had mental and physical illnesses in different cases. Prevalence of systemic diseases among the population was 32.5%. six the most common disease were heart-coronary disease (5.8%), gastrointestinal diseases (5%), diseases of the glands (4.7%), types of allergies (3.4%), internal disease(3.1%) and renal disease (2.4%) respectively. Cancer disease (0.1%) had the minimum frequency in this study. Conclusions: Among patients referred to the dentist, a significant percentage of patients had systemic disease. This case indicates the importance of education and leading of dental students in how their performance and behaviour with patients.

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Systematic Disease, Frequency, Dental School
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Golnaz Ayazi
Qazvin Medical Sciences University, Iran, Islamic Republic of
Mahsa Esfahani
Qazvin Medical Sciences University, Iran, Islamic Republic of

Abstract


Background: Systemic diseases have a direct effect on dental tissues and the levels of tolerance for dental interventions. The purpose of this study is the studding of Prevalence of systemic diseases and their relationship with oral diseases. Materials and methods: In this cross-sectional study, all available files in the archive of Qazvin Dental School were evaluated by census from 2009 to 2010. For Descriptive analysis of data, statistical parameters such as mean, standard deviation and range were used. Χ2 correlation and One Sample T test were used for estimation of correlation between characters and significance difference of individuals in each character respectively. Results: From 2083 patient records reviewed, males were 63 percent and females were 37 percent (mean age 55 ± 11 years). Approximately 81 percent of people had diploma and lower diploma degree. Age range 20-49 years, 83.3 percent (n = 1736) subjects were included. 67.5% of those were without medical history and other subjects 32.5% had mental and physical illnesses in different cases. Prevalence of systemic diseases among the population was 32.5%. six the most common disease were heart-coronary disease (5.8%), gastrointestinal diseases (5%), diseases of the glands (4.7%), types of allergies (3.4%), internal disease(3.1%) and renal disease (2.4%) respectively. Cancer disease (0.1%) had the minimum frequency in this study. Conclusions: Among patients referred to the dentist, a significant percentage of patients had systemic disease. This case indicates the importance of education and leading of dental students in how their performance and behaviour with patients.

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Systematic Disease, Frequency, Dental School

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