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The mandible shows with 91.9 % (CI 30.3) a better implant prognosis in patients with congenitally missing teeth than the maxilla with 84.2 % (CI 8.3) (Fig. 8).
Patients heterozygous for CF showed significantly more extensive restorations than those who were homozygous (P =.015) and significantly more missing teeth than the controls (P =.008), whereas the controls had significantly more missing teeth than those who were homozygous for CF (P <.001).
Females had significantly higher risk for decayed and filled teeth, and less chance for missing teeth than males.
In all dental regions females have less missing teeth than males (OR: 0.47 - 0.59; p-values < 0.001).
Confining analyses to the maxillary arch, people with the most dental fear had significantly more missing teeth than people with either no dental fear or a little dental fear.
Indigenous adults accessing public dental services in Australia have higher levels of periodontal disease and fewer filled teeth, but greater numbers of missing teeth than non-Indigenous patients [ 4].
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Subjects with missing teeth other than third molars were also excluded from the study.
Subjects were nine patients who had just been fitted with an implant prosthesis in the mandibular first molar region, with no missing teeth other than in the implant region.
Moreover, for the first time, the follow-up of 46-year-olds included complete clinical oral examinations, which enabled the clinical measurement of the number of missing teeth rather than self-reported measurements.
Missing teeth in more than 5 patients are marked with a green ring: the thicker the ring is, the higher the frequency of agenesis for that tooth.
This study highlighted that the DMFT and the number of missing teeth were lower than those found in most other countries; the number of filled teeth was higher.
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