Clinico-statistical observation on the pediatric outpatients in the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Hiroshima City Hospital

Abstract

We made a clinico-statistical observation on the pediatric outpatients in our department during the past thirteen years. The results obtained were as follows: 1. The total number of pediatric outpatients was 1326. (males: 694, females: 632)2. The mean age of the pediatric outpatients was 7.7.3. According to classification based on clinical diagnosis of oral and maxillofacial surgical diseases, the number of anomaly cases totaled 244(31.9%), while there were 192 trauma(25.1%),89 inflammation(11.6%),77 temporomandibular joint disease(10.1%),73 cyst(9.6%),54 oral mucous disease (7.1%) and 35 tumor(4.6%) cases.