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Incidence and Prevalence of Kennedy's Class 1 And Class 2 Edentulousness In Patients Visiting Dental College
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SWETHA ILANGOVAN, KEERTHI SASANKA, VENKATESH K, GEO MANI
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Edentulousness is a condition of being toothless at least to some degree. Loss of only some teeth is known as partial edentulism. Kennedy classification’s scientific hallmark is that it is widely accepted and has many advantages. One of which is immediate visualisation, recognition of prosthesis support and also communication between the dentist and the lab technician. The aim of the study is to find the incidence and prevalence of Kennedy class 1 and class 2 edentulousness in patients visiting dental college. This was a retrospective study done under a hospital setting. All the patients' records were collected from June 2019 to March 2020 and were reviewed. The data included patients who were partially edentulous, both class 1 Kennedy and class 2 Kennedy edentulousness. The patients were above the age of 18 years. Completely edentulous patients and those with only maxillary or mandibular third molars missing were excluded from the study. The data was tabulated and entered in excel and the data was analysed using SPSS package software. p<0.05 was considered to be the level of statistical significance, in the study. The incidence and prevalence of Kennedy class 1 and class 2 edentulousness in patients visiting dental college was found with class 1 having incidence of 26.24% and Class 2 of 43.97% and both Kennedy Class 1 and Class 2 Edentulousness in 29.79%. Within the limits of the study, we saw prevalence of Kennedy Class 1 of 26.24% and Class 2 of 43.97% and both Kennedy Class 1 and Class 2 Edentulousness in 29.79%. Mandibular prevalence of 73.7%. Female patients showed higher incidence of Kennedy Class 1 and 2 Classification. The mean age of partial edentulism of Kennedy class 1 and class 2 being 46.19 years.
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Partial edentulism; Kennedy classification; Kennedy class 1; Kennedy class 2; edentulousness; missing teeth
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https://doi.org/10.31838/ijpr/2020.SP2.217
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