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Socio-demographic factors and edentulism: the Nigerian experience

BACKGROUND: The rate of total edentulism is said to be increasing in developing countries and this had been attributed mainly to the high prevalence of periodontal diseases and caries. Several reports have shown that non-disease factors such as attitude, behavior, dental attendance, characteristics...

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Autores principales: Esan, Temitope Ayodeji, Olusile, Adeyemi Oluniyi, Akeredolu, Patricia Adetokunbo, Esan, Ayodeji Omobolanle
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2004
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC538266/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15555072
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6831-4-3
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author Esan, Temitope Ayodeji
Olusile, Adeyemi Oluniyi
Akeredolu, Patricia Adetokunbo
Esan, Ayodeji Omobolanle
author_facet Esan, Temitope Ayodeji
Olusile, Adeyemi Oluniyi
Akeredolu, Patricia Adetokunbo
Esan, Ayodeji Omobolanle
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description BACKGROUND: The rate of total edentulism is said to be increasing in developing countries and this had been attributed mainly to the high prevalence of periodontal diseases and caries. Several reports have shown that non-disease factors such as attitude, behavior, dental attendance, characteristics of health care systems and socio-demographic factors play important roles in the aetiopathogenesis of edentulism. The aim of this study was to assess the relationship between socio-demographic factors and edentulism. METHODS: A total of 152 patients made up of 80 (52.6%) males and 72 (47.4%) females who presented in two prosthetic clinics located in an urban and a rural area were included in the study. The relationship between gender, age, socio-economic status and edentulism in this study population was established. RESULTS: No significant relationship between gender and denture demand was noted in the study. The demand for complete dentures increased with age while the demand for removable partial dentures also increased with age until the 3(rd )decade and then started to decline. A significant relationship was found between denture demand and the level of education with a higher demand in lower educational groups (p < 0.001). In addition, the lower socio-economic group had a higher demand more for prostheses than the higher group. CONCLUSIONS: The findings in this study revealed a significant relationship between socio-demographic variables and edentulism with age, educational level and socio-economic status playing vital roles in edentulism and denture demand.
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spelling pubmed-5382662004-12-19 Socio-demographic factors and edentulism: the Nigerian experience Esan, Temitope Ayodeji Olusile, Adeyemi Oluniyi Akeredolu, Patricia Adetokunbo Esan, Ayodeji Omobolanle BMC Oral Health Research Article BACKGROUND: The rate of total edentulism is said to be increasing in developing countries and this had been attributed mainly to the high prevalence of periodontal diseases and caries. Several reports have shown that non-disease factors such as attitude, behavior, dental attendance, characteristics of health care systems and socio-demographic factors play important roles in the aetiopathogenesis of edentulism. The aim of this study was to assess the relationship between socio-demographic factors and edentulism. METHODS: A total of 152 patients made up of 80 (52.6%) males and 72 (47.4%) females who presented in two prosthetic clinics located in an urban and a rural area were included in the study. The relationship between gender, age, socio-economic status and edentulism in this study population was established. RESULTS: No significant relationship between gender and denture demand was noted in the study. The demand for complete dentures increased with age while the demand for removable partial dentures also increased with age until the 3(rd )decade and then started to decline. A significant relationship was found between denture demand and the level of education with a higher demand in lower educational groups (p < 0.001). In addition, the lower socio-economic group had a higher demand more for prostheses than the higher group. CONCLUSIONS: The findings in this study revealed a significant relationship between socio-demographic variables and edentulism with age, educational level and socio-economic status playing vital roles in edentulism and denture demand. BioMed Central 2004-11-22 /pmc/articles/PMC538266/ /pubmed/15555072 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6831-4-3 Text en Copyright © 2004 Esan et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Olusile, Adeyemi Oluniyi
Akeredolu, Patricia Adetokunbo
Esan, Ayodeji Omobolanle
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title_short Socio-demographic factors and edentulism: the Nigerian experience
title_sort socio-demographic factors and edentulism: the nigerian experience
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC538266/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15555072
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6831-4-3
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