Periodontal assessment using the Community Periodontal Index of Treatment Needs at Westmead Hospital, Sydney, 1984

Abstract

The periodontal status and treatment needs were determined for a consecutive sample of 200 subjects 15 years and over who presented at the Assessment and Diagnosis Department at the Westmead Hospital Dental Clinical School. A partial recording of the Community Periodontal Index of Treatment Needs using 10 index teeth for subjects 20 years and over and six index teeth for subjects under 20 years was used.Periodontal disease prevalence was high (with 98 per cent affected) but in most subjects it was of mild to moderate severity. Advanced periodontal disease (pockets of 6 mm or more) was present in 15 per cent of the sample.The major treatment requirement in all age groups was for simple periodontal care involving scaling and oral hygiene instruction that could be managed by non‐specialist dental resources.

Prevalence of periodontal conditions among public‐funded dental patients in Australia

“…Compared with the 1984 Sydney study, 11 in this study there was a slightly lower percentage of periodontal pockets. For example, in this study, among those 65+, 30.5 per cent versus 38 per cent in the Sydney study had pockets 4-5mm, and 13.9 per cent in this study had pockets 6mm compared with 15 per cent in the Sydney study.…”

“…10 In 1984, using the community periodontal index of treatment needs (CPITN), periodontal assessments of public-funded patients were performed at Sydney's Westmead Hospital. 11 Prevalence of periodontal disease was found to be high, but of mild to moderate severity, in most patients. Later findings on public-funded dental patients, from 1992-93, were based on New South Wales (NSW), Victoria and South Australian (SA) data.…”

“…3 There has also been limited documentation of the periodontal status of public patients. [11][12] A monitoring survey approach, which utilises the initial clinical examination of a course of care by the treating clinician, has the advantage of reducing costs and enabling data to be collected on a large number of patients across a wide range of clinics. Such an approach is analogous to the use of routine records such as disease registers and death certificates in epidemiological studies.…”

Periodontal status of a given population of West Bengal: An epidemiological study

“…All the subjects were divided into five age groups namely 15–19 years, 20–29 years, 30–44 years, 45–64 years following the pattern of Ainamo et al . [9] , and a further elderly group of 65 years and above as per Sivaneswaran and Barnard[11] was also included. Based on the surveys conducted in 1999–2000 by National Council of Applied Economics Research, the subjects were divided into five income groups as low, lower middle, middle, upper middle, and high.…”

Assessment of periodontal status with CPITN and conventional periodontal indices

“…There has recently been an increasing adoption of CPITN as an epidemiological index.Although the clinical rationale behind the recommended basic criteria, and parfial recording procedure explains its ready acceptance, it is necessary that the advantages of the index be identified (Cutress et al 1986). Several epidemiological studies have been carried out using CPITN or PTNS (Bellini & Gjermo 1973, Christensen et al 1983, Markhanen et al 1983, Croxson 1984, Ishikawa et al 1984, Barmes & Leous 1986, Brauer et al 1986, Manji & Sheiham 1986, Pilot et al 1986, Garcia & Cutress 1986, Brown et al 1987, Sivaneswaran & Barnard 1987. All these studies have evaluated treatment needs for populations.…”