Aims of study: 1-To determine the prevalence and 2- the pattern of hypodontia in
the permanent dentition in a sample of Syrian orthodontic patients who sought orthodontic
treatment.
Materials and Methods: The orthodontic records of 623 patients ag
ed 12 to 34, who
sought orthodontic treatment in the Department of Orthodontics, Dental faculty/Damascus
University, during the last three years (2011-2014), were investigated to establish the
prevalence of patients with one or more permanent missing teeth.
Results: 1-The prevalence of hypodontia was 7.10% of the studied sample (7.49% in
females, and 6.35% in males). Males were less affected than females with a ratio of 1:1.18
with no significant differences between genders (P = 0.063).
2-The most common missing tooth was maxillary lateral incisor (56.52%), the least
common missing tooth was maxillary first molar (0.87%). Missing in the maxillary jaw
was significantly more frequent than the mandible (P=0.041( with significantly more
anterior teeth missing than posterior teeth (P=0.009).
Conclusions: The prevalence of hypodontia showed in this study was within the
range published in the literature. The patterns are similar to most reported patterns in the
literature.
This study was carried at Al Assad hospital, Lattakia. It is a retrospective study of uterine leiomyoma patients who had been accepted in the Department of Gynecology during the period between 1/6/2011 and 1/6/2013 .
The study included 103 patients.
We documented information for each patient: age, signs and symptoms, number of pregnancies and births, clinical and vaginal examination, ultrasound, blood tests: hemoglobin, hematocrit and red cell values, and the type of surgical treatment.
The prevalence of uterine leiomyoma in this study was 5.1%.
The most clinical manifestation of uterine leiomyoma was abnormal uterine bleeding (63.1 %).
Hemoglobin was less than 12 g / dL at 59.22% of cases.
Hematocrit was less than 36% at 57.28 % of cases.
This confirms that uterine leiomyoma patients are at high risk of anemia,
(we depended on cut off point of WHO for hemoglobin and hematocrit), and the anemia is by iron deficiency because the average values of red blood cells were less than normal.
Myomectomy is the surgical option among young women who want to reproduce or maintain menstruation, while abdominal and vaginal hysterectomy are surgical options for older women or who have completed their reproductive life .
