A survey on anterior dental irregularities

Abstract EN

This study involved the intra-oral clinical examination of about seven thousand 13 year olds with no history of orthodontic treatment were selected from six governorates (Baghdad the capital, Ninevah, Basrah, Diyala, Anbar and Najaf).

The largest irregularities of alignment in the maxillary and mandibular anterior segments were registered for each student.

Anterior irregularities of 1mm or more were found in more than half of the sample (59.5 % maxillary and 49.2 % mandibular), whereas anterior irregularities of 2mm or more were less prevalent (19.1 % maxillary and 15.1 % mandibular); being significantly more in rural students than urban ones and non-significantly related to gender and governorate.