Affiliation:
1. Tyumen State Medical University
Abstract
The enlarged literature review concerning an important relevant dental problem related to caries spreading and its intensity, inflammatory periodontal diseases, non carious dental lesions, dentomaxillar abnormalities in the population living in the rural areas is presented.
The aim of the study is to analyze the epidemiology of main dental diseases in the population living in the rural areas according to the review of the modern scientific literature for the period since 2013.
Methodology. To write this article the analytical work on studying data taken from the special available literature was carried out. The scientific library resourses such as PubMed Central and Elibrary were used. The search of original publications was done using key words to get relevant results. 43 scientific sources were included in the review.
Results and conclusion. The modern scientific data concerning incidence and degree of manifestation of key pathologies of oral organs and tissues such as carious process, gingivitis and perodontitis, malocclusion, non carious dental lesions (mainly-hypoplasia, fluorosis) were systematized as well as the estimation of prosthesis quality of teeth and dental sets of teeth in the rural population living both in Russia and abroad was given. The clinical significance of the work is to know a real incidence of dental diseases in the different regions of the country and develop complex preventive programs taking into consideration the territory peculiarities. The perspective way for studying is to reveal risk factors of the dental diseases development paying attention to the association with the oral health, social deprivation, diet, hygiene, bad habits and stress which have to improve dental health in the population living in the rural areas.