Study of Dental Treatment Received by Attenders in Government General Dental Center/Hospital Dugbe, Ibadan-Nigeria: A 5-Year Longitudinal Retrospective Study

Abstract

ABSTRACT A study to determine the different types of received patients attending the Government Dental Center/Hospital, Dugbe Ibadan, Nigeria between December 1999 and December 2004 and to see how this treatment is distributed among different sexes and age groups. Government Dental Center Dugbe, Ibadan, was the Pioneer Dental Center in the South-Western Region of Nigeria and was established in the precolonial era. The treatment pattern noticed was an alarming rate of extractions which accounts for 76.65% of all patients treated, dentures (6.96%), scalings (15.80%), filings (0.32%), medication (0.24%), checkup (0.03%) accounted for the rest. When this result is calibrated on actual treatment given (excluding medication and checkup), patients requiring extraction jumped to 76.23%. Female to male ratio was more than 2.1 while adult to underage ratio was 3.1. Thus, there is a need to urgently address this trend before the whole population is made edentulous and to embrace a preventive policy programmed in dentistry. Clinical significance There is an alarming rate of dental extraction which constitutes the commonest procedure carried out in this study in Nigeria. How to cite this article Olaleye AO. Study of Dental Treatment Received by Attenders in Government General Dental Center/ Hospital Dugbe, Ibadan-Nigeria: A 5-Year Longitudinal Retrospective Study. World J Dent 2013;4(2):86-91.