Incidence of various kennedy's classes in partially edentulous patients visiting dental OPD Hyderabad/Jamshoro

ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the incidence of various Kennedy's classes in partially edentulous patients visiting dental OPD Hyderabad/Jamshoro. A Descriptive study was conducted at Department of Prosthodontics, Liaquat University of medical and health sciences Jamshoro/Hyderabad, Sindh from Jan 2013 to June 2013. Three hundred patients who were fulfilling the inclusion criteria were included in the study. Detailed Clinical examination of the patients were done and recorded in proforma. Out of 300 patients included in this study 173 were male [57.66%] and 127 patients were female [42.33%]; with male to female ratio of 1.31. There was wide variation of age ranging from a minimum of 15 year to 75 years. The mean age was 47 +/- 7.8 years. Clinical examination of patients revealed mostly teeth missing in mandibular arch 180 [60%] patients, while in maxillary arch 120[40%] patients. The most common site of missing teeth in our study was left side in 128[42.66%] cases, followed by right side in 144[38%] cases and anterior site in 58[19.33%] cases. Our study revealed class-I in 97[32.33%] cases, class-II in 47[15.66%] cases, class-III in 99[33%] cases and class-IV in 57[19%]. In conclusion, the partially edentulous condition exists common incidence in the in the mandibular as compared with maxillary arch. Kennedy's Class I and III remains the most common [33% and 32.33%] classification