PMID: 20099785Jan 27, 2010Paper

Microbiological status of periodontal diseases in Lagos, Nigeria

The West Indian Medical Journal
L O EgwariN N Nwokoye

Abstract

The dynamic nature of oro-facial infections made it imperative to study the epidemiology of gingivitis and periodontitis which are significant clinical conditions in the Nigerian environment. The clinical and microbiological features of 162 patients with periodontal diseases (gingivitis 68, periodontitis 94) were analysed. The advantage of routine antibiotic susceptibility testing for oral pathogens in patients' management was investigated. The incidence of periodontal diseases was more in females than males with a ratio of 0.53 though the difference was not significant. A high incidence of gingivitis (55.9%) occurred within the first 29 years with a cluster of cases (48.6%) between 10 and 29 years of age with incidence tending to decline with advancing age. Though the incidence ofperiodontitis was highest amongst adults over 40 years (42.6%), the incidence of 8.5% in children below 10 years of age was high. Polybacterial aetiology was characteristic; aerobes were the predominant flora in gingivitis with a preponderance of Streptococcus spp, while anaerobes predominated in periodontitis with such species as Porphyromonas, Prevotella, Fusobacterium and Actinobacillus. Significant reduction in duration of treatment was obtained w...Continue Reading

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