Prevalence of Bone Pathologies Reported in a Private Dental Hospital - A Retrospective Study

Abstract

Introduction: Bone lesions of the jaw are either related to the dentition or the alveolar bone proper. Most commonly seen bone lesions are cemento osseous dysplasia, fibrous dysplasia, chondroma, osteosarcoma etc.

Objectives: The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of bone pathologies reported in the Department of oral pathology of a private dental hospital.

Methods: This is a retrospective study done within an institution in a hospital setting. All the case details were collected from the hospital management system and histologically proven bone pathologies were included in the study. A total of 15 patient data were collected and  Statistical analysis was done using the latest version of SPSS software ( version 24).

Results: From the data collected, incidence of bone pathologies was seen more in the age group of 20-29. Number of female patients reported with bone pathologies was more than the number of male patients reported with bone pathologies. Pain was the common clinical feature that was presented by most of the patients. The p value is 0.360(>0.05) which is statistically insignificant. Radio opaque finding was predominantly. The p value is 0.285(>0.05) which is statistically insignificant. It was also found that surgical excision was the commonly followed treatment for the bone pathologies. The p value is 0.325(>0.05) which is statistically insignificant.

Conclusions: Within the limitations of the retrospective study done in a hospital setting it is found that females have more predilection to occurrence of bone pathologies than males and that most bone lesions affected individuals within the age of 20-29.