Malocclusion among patients at Agartala, Tripura, India

Shib Kumar Nath; Pratyaksha Singh Panwar; Kanika Singh Dhull; Pratik Surana; Ashtha Arya; Jayesh Tiwari

doi:10.6026/973206300200258

Malocclusion among patients at Agartala, Tripura, India

Bioinformation. 2024 Mar 31;20(3):258-260. doi: 10.6026/973206300200258. eCollection 2024.

Authors

Shib Kumar Nath¹, Pratyaksha Singh Panwar², Kanika Singh Dhull³, Pratik Surana⁴, Ashtha Arya⁵, Jayesh Tiwari⁶

Affiliations

¹ Department of Orthodontics And Dentofacial Orthopaedics, Agartala Govt. Dental College And IGM Hospital, Agartala, Tripura, India.
² Department of Dentistry, Government Doon Medical College, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India.
³ Department of Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry, Kalinga Institute of Dental Sciences, KIIT Deemed to be University, Bhubaneswar, India.
⁴ Department of Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry, Maitri College of Dentistry and Research Centre, Durg, Chhattisgarh, India.
⁵ Department of Conservative Dentistry and Endodontics, SGT Dental College, Hospital and Research Institute, SGT University, Gurugram, Haryana - 122505, India.
⁶ Department of Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry, New Horizon Dental College & Research Institute, Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh, India.

Abstract

Malocclusion is the mal-relationship of dental arches with or without an irregularity of the teeth. Therefore, it is of interest to estimate the rate of occurrence of malocclusion within the population of Agartala city, Tripura, India. The study included 850 individuals ranging from 16 to 24 years of age, which were categorized into five distinct classifications, namely normal occlusion, Angle's Class I malocclusion, Class II Division 1, Class II Division 2, and Class III malocclusion. Data shows that normal occlusal alignment was observed in 29.41% of the participants, whereas a majority of 70.59% exhibited various forms of malocclusion among this population.

Keywords: Malocclusion; angle's classification; prevalence.