The Most Common Ten Diseases in the Dental Department

Abstract

In this article the author focuses of the most common ten diseases and anomalies that come across our daily practice in the Dental Department of AHT-SA Hospital. The author depended on the statistics, cases reports and active cases of his daily practice. The most registered anomaly “considered disease” in the Orthodontic Department has been the Malocclusion. It’s found out that 94% of the patient who visited the Orthodontic Clinic of A.H. Hospital have had a sort of “Mal-Occlusion”.
The other diseases that had been registered had been: the Dental Caries, Periodontitis, Cleft-Lip and Palate, Ectodermal Dysplasia, Dentigerous Cysts,
Impacted Third Molars, Mouth breathing “and Snoring”, Diabetes and its dental aftermaths and Finally Achondroplasia.
Discussion: This study has used the files, the notes and all the registrations and statistics of the hospital [1, 2]. Despite that the diseases differ in their advent according to the region, the ethnic considerations and the patients’ habits, however, the author tries in summarize the highest registered cases during the period of the latest 18 months within the Hospital.
The most numbered diseases in the Orthodontic Clinic have been: