Frequency and suppliers of removable partial dentures among group of Iraqi population

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Background: Need for dental services is generally considered as the treatment needs detect during oral examination by a dental professional, regardless whether the patient demands care.

If the patient with prosthodontic treatment needs, essks, and receives care, this is effective demand.

Material and method: The potential need for Prosthetic treatment among group of Iraqi subjects were evaluated by analyzing records of 986 patients attended to the dental college seeking for removable partial dentures (RPDs) treatment in both sexes and distributed among different age groups.

Results: The results showed significant differences between male and female in different age groups, also highest frequencies of RPDs were found in the female oldest age group, with increase in number of RPDs constructed by progression in age.

Regarding the type of kennedy classification of missing areas, it was shown that class III kennedy classification is the most frequent condition is all age groups and in both sexes, 50.9% for upper arch and 41.0% in the lower arch in whole sample.

Patients seeked for upper and lower RPD treatment would be inclined to more frequent (391=39.7%) condition.

Conclusions: Findings showed a strong positive association between frequency of kennedy classification and increase wearing of partial dentures more in upper compared with lower .