Orthodontic treatment needs in the western region of Saudi Arabia a research report 英文参考文献.docVIP

Head Face Medicine BioMedCentral Research Open Access Orthodontic treatment needs in the western region of Saudi Arabia: a research report Ali H Hassan* Address: P.O. Box 80209, Jeddah 21589, Preventive Dental Sciences Department, Faculty of Dentistry, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia Email: Ali H Hassan* - aliresearch@ * Corresponding author Published: 18 January 2006 Received: 11 September 2005 Accepted: 18 January 2006 Head Face Medicine 2006, 2:2 doi:10.1186/1746-160X-2-2 This article is available from: /content/2/1/2 ? 2006 Hassan; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: Evaluation of self perceived and actual need for orthodontic treatment helps in planning orthodontic services and estimating the required resources and man power. In the present study, the perceptive need as evaluated by patients and the actual need to orthodontic treatment, as assessed by orthodontists, were evaluated at two types of dental practices in the city of Jeddah using the Index of Orthodontic Treatment Need (IOTN). Methods: A consecutive sample of 743 adults seeking orthodontic treatment at two different types of dental practices in Jeddah; King Abdulaziz University, Faculty of Dentistry (KAAU) (Free treatment) and two private dental polyclinics (PDP) (Paid treatment), was examined for orthodontic treatment need using the dental health component (DHC) of the IOTN. The self- perceived need for orthodontic treatment was also determined using the aesthetic component (AC) of the IOTN. The IOTN score and the incidence of each variable were calculated statistically. AC and DHC categories were compared using the Chi-Square and a correlation between