2019 Volume 57 Issue 4 Pages 465-472
The demands and dental needs of child patients and their parents who come to pediatric dental clinics have changed in recent years. We examined the records of patients who visited the Department of Pediatric Dentistry of Tohoku University Hospital for their initial visit in the period from April 2015 to March 2019 in order to analyze the role of a university dental hospital in the community. The following results were obtained.
1.The total number of new patients during the study period was 1757, an increase as compared to our preceding study. A total of 1154 (65.7%) of the new patients lived in Sendai City.
2.The majority (88.9%) were referral cases. Most of the referrals were from dental practitioners and the most common reason leading to referral was dental caries treatment.
3.The most common chief complaint of the new patients was dental caries (44.6%), followed by malocclusion (14.2%) and anomaly in number of teeth (10.1%).
The mean dft index of the new patients during the study period was 5.02.
