RESUMO
To determine the prevalence of periodontal diseases in Mosut city. Design: Case-series descriptive design: Participants: Five hundred adult patients attending the principal dental health center In Mosul. Setting: The principal dental health center in Mosul is the referral dental clinic. The patients were examined during 6 months from March to the end of August 1996. Mean outcome measures: Clinical examination of dental plague, gingival tissue, periodontal pocket depth, loss of attachment and alveolar bone and supported by radiographic examination of the alveolar bone crest. The extent of the alveolar bone loss was 4.4% in women and 4% in men of the sample examined. The study showed a moderate gingivitis that was observed in the majority of population involved in this study. The loss of attachment increased with age and was higher in women than in men