Abstract
The Morbidity status of children who were examined at the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial surgery Tokyo women's Medical University School of Medicine in the period of four years from 1994 to 1998 was evaluated.
Among 1, 670 child patients in total there were 566 children identified as morbid and the morbidity rate was 33.9%.
Mean diesease affliction was 1.21 per child. As for other disease prevalence apart from dentistry, the rate of circulatory organ related diseases was most at 30.8% being then followed in order of urinary organs, respiratory organs and neurological disease. At our department about half of all diseases identified were dental diseases at the rate of 60.1%, and then being followed by traumas, and inflammation. Most treatments provided were conservative and prosthetic treatments, then followed by the provision of brushing instruction and scaling.
