Demands and dental needs among a group of children attending the Pedodontics Department-College of Dentistry-Baghdad

Abstract EN

Demands and dental needs were assessed in a sample of 198 children attending the department of Pedodontics, college of dentistry for the first time.

Tooth ache and check-up accounted for the most frequent overall dental complaint.

98.9 % of children needed dental treatment because of dental caries, 100% needed periodontal treatment, 15.2 % needed dental treatment because of traumatic dental injury and 108 cases needed orthodontic treatment.

Data of the present study revealed a far distance between normative needs and demands for treatment of Iraqi children.