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Periodontal status and treatment needs among Spanish hospitalized psychiatric patients
Author(s) -
Velasco Eugenio,
Bullon Pedro
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
special care in dentistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.328
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1754-4505
pISSN - 0275-1879
DOI - 10.1111/j.1754-4505.1999.tb01394.x
Subject(s) - medicine , periodontium , oral hygiene , periodontal disease , dentistry , population , psychiatry , environmental health
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the periodontal status and treatment needs (by CPITN) of 565 patients hospitalized in a psychiatric facility in Seville, Spain. The results of this study showed that 31.7% of the patients were edentulous and that 68.3%% were dentate. Of the dentate subjects, 8.5% were found to have a healthy periodontium, 14.2% had bleeding on probing, 43.8% had calculus, 24.6% had shallow pockets, and 8.9% had deep pockets. The results of the study also showed that the severity of periodontal disease increased significantly with age and the length of time of hospitalization. The need for oral hygiene instruction among the dentate population was determined to be 91.5%, and the need for treatment (oral prophylaxis and scaling) was 77.3%. These findings suggest that hospitalized psychiatric patients in Spain are in dire need of preventive dentistry .