Prevalence of endodontic treatment among Stomatology Teaching Hospital adult patients, Kabul University of Medical Sciences (KUMS), Kabul, Afghanistan

Abstract

Background: Endodontic treatment is the entire removal of coronal and radicular pulp tissue and then obturation of the space by specific materials. Normally dental pulp and its surrounding dentin are protected by enamel and cementum. Factors like caries, dental trauma, and restorative procedures may destroy these hard tissues and infect the complex of dentin-pulp, and result in dental pathology and extension of inflammation into peri-radicular tissue. In this condition, endodontic treatment is necessary to be done.

Objective: To find the prevalence of endodontic treatment among Stomatology Teaching Hospital adult patients

Method and Material: It is a descriptive cross-sectional study that was done during the last four months of 1399. The target information for this research was collected actively from patients in data collection form and the register book and the prevalence of endodontic treatment was found. So that all the patients of the Endodontics and Operative Dentistry department of Stomatology Teaching Hospital were carefully noted and evaluated and the number of teeth that were treated endodontically and their characteristics were noted in the data collection form for research and then the collected data was analyzed.

Results: The prevalence of endodontic treatment was found 25 %. The participants were 18-70 years old. According to age, most of the cases were found in the third decade of life (44.96%), 21.6 % in the second decade, and 14 % in the fifth decade. According to gender, 46.4 % of the cases were male and 53.6 % of the cases were female. The most affected teeth were the first permanent molar tooth 39,9 % the and second permanent molar tooth 16,2 %, but the least cases were found in the permanent canine tooth 3,6 % and the third permanent molar tooth 4,3 %. Most cases were found in the lower jaw 52.1 % which is more than in upper jaw teeth.

Conclusion: The prevalence of endodontic treatment was 25%, higher than observed in epidemiological studies conducted in other countries. Most of the cases were female. Endodontic treatment was most frequent in the lower jaw and specifically in the first molar and mostly occurred in the third, second, and fifth decades of life.