TITLE:
Extra-Oral Digital Panoramic Radiographic Interpretation and Clinical Findings of Stage IV Periodontitis among Some Samples Concerning Saudi/Non-Saudi Nationality
AUTHORS:
Mohammed M. A. Abdulla Al-Abdaly, Amer Hassan Alasmari, Saeed J. Alqahtani, Ahmed Abdulrahman Alzahrani, Jawaher Moshabab A. Al Ahmari, Ghadeer Mohammed Mohammed Al-Abdaly, Ibrahim Hassan Ibrahim Alqaysi, Mohammed Dhafer Mohammed Al-Shamrani
KEYWORDS:
Extra-Oral Digital Panoramic Radiographs, Nationality, Stage IV Periodontitis
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Stomatology,
Vol.12 No.2,
February
18,
2022
ABSTRACT: Background: There are associations between the severity of periodontal diseases and some predisposing factors, such as age, race, and income rate. Therefore, the present study was designed to evaluate the extra-oral digital panoramic radiographic interpretation and clinical findings of stage IV periodontitis among some samples concerning Saudi/non-Saudi nationality. Material and Methods: The study comprised a random sample of 298 residents in Saudi Arabia referred to the internship program clinics at the College of Dentistry, King Khalid University. They were according to the age of participants as follows: youth (15 - 24 years), adults (25 - 64 years), and seniors (65 years and over) within two groups according to nationality (Saudi and non-Saudi). Clinical periodontal examination and radiographic extra oral digital panoramic radiographs were done, and then the periodontal parameters, the percentage of bone loss, and the pattern of bone loss were recorded. The data was collected, and the statistical analysis was performed with ANOVA test, Tukey’s test, Chi-square test, and T-test and considered a P-value at (p Results: The samples included 62 (20%) youth participants with mean of age (21.806 ± 3.390), 182 (57%) adults’ participants with mean age (42.802 ± 9.094), and 54 (23%) seniors participants with a mean age (69.074 ± 6.810). There were highly statistically significant differences in the comparison between the participants’ ages (P 0.05). Conclusion: At the end of this study, we concluded that there are alterations in clinical and radiographic and clinical findings of stage IV periodontitis with the alteration of participants’ ages and nationality.