Prevalence of dental alveolar anomalies in 16 - 25 year-old individuals living in the city of Samara

The objective of this research consists in determination of prevalence of dental alveolar anomalies (DAA) with the persons living in Samara. The data obtained during the research will help to estimate people's awareness of the DAA problem and methods of these pathologies elimination, proceeding from the obtained data we will estimate how well promoting of orthopedic stomatologic help works in Samara. Introduction. The problem of DAA is one of the most thoroughly studied in modern odontology. Prevalence of dental alveolar anomalies both among children, and adult population in the world and in particular in Russia is at a high level. According to various authors in Russia it amounts to from 41,1% to 95,3% depending on the region. (V.M.Bezrukov, 2000). The results obtained by V.N.Trezubov, R.A.Fadeyev, O.V.Bargunova in 2003 testify to DAA occurrence at 35 - 60% on average. DAA are as widespread abroad. Thus, in Finland, according to M.L.Tiominen, R.J.Tiominen 1994 data, DAA prevalence makes up 47%, by U.Varrela, 2008 data - 60%; in Denmark - 45% (K.R.Burgersdijk et al.,1991); Norway - 37% (L.V.Espeland, A.Steenvik, 1991); the USA - 35% (V.M.Bezrukov et al., 2000). The article deals with the problem of dental alveolar anomalies prevalence and the level of promotion of orthodontic care to the population living in the city of Samara. Conclusion. Summing up the results of the research we can state that although orthodontic stomatologic help develops in leaps and bounds its presence is hardly noticeably among the population. The research only established 3 patients who received or receive these types of treatment. To address the problem it is necessary to involve all methods of promoting, from mass media advertizing, to doctors' recommendations of not only therapeutic and orthodontic stomatologic profile, but also of surgeons-stomatologists who have to closely interact with stomatologists-orthopedists and orthodontists since the neglected defect leads to the DAA development. And until experts reach synergy in their work DAA indicators will be at such high level. As important is the work of paedodontists and pediatricians whose aim is DAA prevention at early stages of a human body development. The 16 to 25 age range was chosen primarily for evaluation of the work of these experts since at 16 the formation of constant occlusion comes to an end and we received deplorable results. We can only hope that this work and many papers similar to this work will force society to turn to DAA problem.