The structure of disease among children department of maxillofacial surgery / Монголын Анагаах Ухаан

ABSTRACT

Introduction@#The department of Maxillofacial surgery of the National Center for Maternal and Child Health (NCMCH) has a nationwide tertiary medical service on the patients who is with congenital orofacial anomalies, facial injury, nonmalignant tumors of this area, and inflammations of maxillofacial area following dental caries and other reasons as well. For the last years nationwide the number of inpatient of the department has been growing constantly meaning that the necessity of medical care for our countries for children is also growing. Therefore by studying and analyzing the structure of the illness of the department will be able to determine the most frequent orofacial illness among children in our country, to prevent them, define the treatment plan.@*Aim@#To clarify what disease in the Maxillofacial area mainly occurs among Mongolian children. @*Materials and Method@#We included all patients who underwent emergency and planned surgery in the department of Max-illofacial surgery, NCMCH between 2014-2015. </br> We used descriptive and case-control method based on the information of inpatients history record between 2014.01.01-2015.01.01 at the department of Maxillofacial surgery, NCMCH and using our own –designed, pre-screened survey card. </br> Statistical data processing is done using Microsoft Office-2017 and SPSS for windows programs, and the results are shown illustrated method. The survey identified the incidence and frequency of each disease classification, and analyzed the characteristics of the child’s age, sex, and residency.@*Result@#The most of patients, who involved in this study were with the inflammation of maxillofacial area (57%), and the congenital orofacial clefts (24.4%). </br> In total 3300 children from 0-18 years old admitted at the department of Maxillofacial surgery and Infants study for orofacial surgery treatment were involved in this study. </br> Among which were 1803(54.6%) male, 1497(45.4%) female. Considering the residency, 2525(76.5%) children from Ulaanbaatar and 775 (23.5%) children from countryside. The most of patients, who involved in this study, were with the inflammation of maxillofacial area (57%), and the congenital orofacial clefts (24.4%).@*Conclusion@#Based on the result of our study the highest incidence among the participants was inflammation of maxillofacial area with 57% in which odontogenic periostitis was the most frequent with 21.6%. Congenital orofacial clefts and disorders was the 2^nd most frequent with 24.4%. Inflammation of maxillo-facial area was most frequent in 0-2 age group with 33.7%, and mostly in male. Considering there were residency with 83.2% highest in Ulaanbaatar and mostly in Bayanzurkh district with 24.7%.