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Incidence of Therapeutic Extractions among Patients with 21-28 Years Age Group Visiting Private Dental College and Hospital, Chennai
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C.S.YUVASHREE , SENTHIL MURUGAN. P, S. DELPHINE PRISCILLA ANTONY
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Background: Therapeutic extraction can be defined as the removal of the teeth for the purpose of orthodontic treatment and for the purpose of Prosthetic Rehabilitation. The reasons for therapeutic extraction indicated to relieve crowding, and to correct antero posterior dental arch relationship and also to improve facial esthetics.
Aim: The aim of the current study is qualitatively and quantitatively analyse the incidence of therapeutic extraction in individuals among 21-28 years of age visiting private Dental College and Hospitals.
Materials and methods: The current study is a descriptive study which is performed under university settings where the therapeutic extraction data was collected from the Hospital Records management system at the Private Dental College. All the therapeutic extraction datas were collected and tabulated, statistical analysis was done by SPSS-IBM. Data collection was carried out from June 2019 to March 2020. The study sample size is 80.
Results: From the statistical analysis, it is observed that therapeutic extraction has equal gender predilection and the most commonly involved age group is around 27 years. The most commonly involved tooth for extraction in both the arches was found to be canines.
Conclusion: Within the limitations of the current study, it is found that therapeutic extraction is more common among 27 years of age with equal gender predilection, and higher incidence with canines.
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Therapeutic extraction, age, gender, tooth number , orthodontic treatment.
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https://doi.org/10.31838/ijpr/2020.SP2.290
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