prevalence of localized juvenile periodontitis in a selected Saudi population: sex ratio in association with recovery of actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans

ABSTRACT

The rationale of this study was to determine the prevalence and sex ratio oflocalized juvenile periodontitis cases in selected Saudi population and tocompare these values with different societies and to correlate the sex ratiowith the presence of Actinomyces actinomycetemcomitans in the afflicted sites. 23 subjects of LJP were diagnosed from a group of 5480 subjects havingdifferent forms of periodontal diseases in a three year retrospective study. The overall prevalence was 0.42% female to male ratio 1.88 to 1. Nostatistically significant difference was noticed in the sex ratio associationregarding the sites afflicted by Actinomyces actinomycetemcomitans