The structure of odontogenic inflammation among children / Монголын Анагаах Ухаан

ABSTRACT

Introduction@#The department of Maxillofacial surgery of the National Center for Maternal and Child Health (NCMCH) has a nationwide tertiary medical service for the children who is with congenital orofacial anomalies, facial injury, nonmalignant tumors of this area, and inflammations of maxillofacial area following odontogenic infection and other reasons as well. For the last years the number of the patients who are with odontogenic inflammation on the department has been growing constantly meaning that the necessity of medical care for our countries for children is also growing. Therefore by studying and analyzing the structure of the odontogenic inflammation and to determine the most frequent odontogenic inflammation among children in our country, to prevent them, define the treatment plan.@*Aim@#To clarify what kind of odontogenic maxillofacial inflammatory diseases mainly occurs among Mongolian children. @*Materials and Method@#We included all patients who are with odontogenic inflammation and underwent emergency and planned surgery in the department of Maxillofacial surgery, NCMCH between 2014-2018. </br> We used descriptive method based on the information of inpatients history record between 2014.01.01- 2018.12.31 at the department of Maxillofacial surgery, NCMCH and using our own –designed, prescreened survey card.</br> Statistical data processing is done using Microsoft Office-2019, SPSS for windows and STATA programs, and the results are shown illustrated method. The survey identified the incidence and frequency of each disease classification, and analyzed the characteristics of the child’s age, sex, and residency.@*Result @#In total 3533 children with odontogenic inflammation, whom age range is 0-18 years old, admitted at the department of Maxillofacial surgery for the surgical treatment were involved in this study.</br> Among which 1452(41.1%) male, 2081(58.9%) female. Considering the residency 2918(82.5%) children from Ulan-Bator and 615 (17.5%) children from countryside. The most of patients, who involved in this study were with odontogenic periostitis of maxillofacial area (67.5%), most were girls and preschool age (3-5 ages).@*Conclusion@#Based on the result of our study the most frequent inflammation was odontogenic periostitis of maxilla and mandible bone with 67.5%. The odontogenic phlegmon of orofacial area was the 2nd most frequent with 25.1%.</br> Inflammation of maxillofacial area was most frequent in 3-5 age group (preschool age) with 41.4%, and mostly in male. Considering the residency with 82.5% highest in Ulanbator.