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Vimal Kumar ¹, Pallak Arora ², Manish Khatri ³, Shivani Sharma ¹, Sumit Malhotra ⁴, Vandana Sharma ⁵

Affiliations
1 Department of Periodontics, Kalka Dental College Hospital and Research Centre, Uttar Pradesh, IN
2 Department of Oral Medicine & Radiology, Kalka Dental College Hospital and Research Centre, Uttar Pradesh, IN
3 Department of Periodontics, IDST Dental College, Uttar Pradesh, IN
4 Department of Periodontology, Kalka Dental College Hospital and Research Centre, Uttar Pradesh, IN
5 Department of Oral Pathology, Kalka Dental College Hospital and Research Centre, Uttar Pradesh, IN

Abstract

Objective: To estimate the prevalence of periodontal disease with different indices. Methods & Materials: The study population consisted of multistage stratified random sample of 1300 subjects from total population of district Ghaziabad. A cross-sectional study was conducted with multi stage stratified random sampling techniques to select the sample population. The subjects were divided into different age groups and the periodontal assessment was made on the basis of CPITN index and ESI Index. Results: The CPITN has shown to estimate incorrect periodontal disease prevalence because of its underestimation of the disease severity. A huge difference was noticed in the prevalence rate of periodontitis when subjects were examined with ESI index. Conclusion: Periodontal disease was found to be highly prevalent in the study population and severity of disease increased with age. More number of subjects in younger age group were found to be healthy.

Keywords

CPITN, ESI, Periodontal Disease, Prevalence.

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